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‘Arctic gene’ that poses risks when fasting is found in many more infants now that DNA testing has begun

By Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News October 31, 2016

Thousands of years of a diet with lots of animal fats and sparse carbohydrates left a mark on the DNA of Native people of the Far North, a genetic condition that slows the body’s ability to burn fat for energy.

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