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Nutritional epidemiology

the proposal that genetic susceptibility to obesity spread by random drift after predation pressure eased, rather than by selection for famine survival.

In nutritional epidemiology, drifty gene hypothesis refers to the proposal that genetic susceptibility to obesity spread by random drift after predation pressure eased, rather than by selection for famine survival. This meaning comes from Speakman (2008) in International Journal of Obesity.[1]

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  1. Speakman, J. R. (2008). Thrifty genes for obesity, an attractive but flawed idea, and an alternative perspective: the ‘drifty gene’ hypothesis. International Journal of Obesity, 32(11), 1611-1617. https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2008.161

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