May 3, 2017
Scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health have joined with a collaborative of international researchers to explore whether and how smoking tobacco may alter one’s genetic susceptibility to obesity and distribution of body fat.
Their findings, published April 26 in Nature Communications, suggest that smoking can and does produce such genetic changes – and that more research should be focused upon discovering specific interactions among genes, obesity and environmental exposures.
Dr. Anne Justice
Dr. Kari North
Anne E. Justice, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology, and Kari North, PhD, epidemiology professor, are key authors of the study.