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Hester, Jessica Marie 2013-06-06T21:19:23Z 2013-06-06T21:19:23Z 2013 https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/38518 Obesity is a major public health problem, resulting in increased morbidity and mortality and heavy economic burdens on health-care systems. In the United States, the financial consequence is considerable. A great deal of effort has been dedicated to research with the goal of understanding factors mediating disease risk and progression of obesity. en Wake Forest University African American BMI Genome-wide association study Obesity Implication of European-derived adiposity loci in African Americans Dissertation Bowden, Donald W Howard, Timothy D Nicklas, Barbara Hawkins, Gregory A Molecular Genetics & Genomics open.access