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High-fat diet made Inuits healthier but shorter thanks to gene mutations, study finds
General Research
18 September 2015
Post-doctoral researcher Julie Hussin, from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, comments in The Conversation about a new study published in Science which shows natural adaptation has led to genetic mutations in Greenlandic Inuits that help them counteract the bad effects of their high-fat diet, based heavily on fish and marine mammals.
