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Anorexia risk may begin outside the brain, new study suggests
October 08, 2026
EAST LANSING, Michigan, Oct. 8 -- Michigan State University College of Natural Science posted the following news:

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Anorexia risk may begin outside the brain, new study suggests

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Researchers find anorexia patients nearly four times as likely to carry potentially damaging variants of a fat-storage gene

A gene primarily active in fat and muscles could make a person more susceptible to anorexia nervosa, a deadly eating disorder w . . .

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