The Sample population in the study was obese humans and mice. ... The researchers found that obese humans and mice have increased level of neutrophil elastase and a decreased level of α1-antitrypsin. When the team leveled out the neutrophil elastase and of α1-antitrypsin, and fed the mice a high fat diet, the mice did not gain weight (Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute). ... "The population in the first study was 30 young active men and women. ... The researchers wanted to track activity in portions of the brain known as the food-reward system, which includes the p...

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Correlation analysis in the family led to the identification of a mutation in the encoding region for a protein known as a-synuclein. ... The axon deletion mutations in a gene on chromosome 6, named the "parkin" gene, have now been identified in a number of these families (Hatttori 1998). ...

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