Adipose tissue: a master in toxicology
Journal: Adipobiology
Year: 2012

Conventional wisdom in the pathogenesis of obesity and related cardiometabolic, malignant and neurodegenerative diseases focuses mainly on genetic predisposition and lifestyle (high caloric foods, sedentary lifestyle, smoking). The human genome project's big promise was that it could improve our understanding of the pathogenesis and therapy of diseases. However, the genes have been found to account for only about 10% of diseases, and the remaining causes appear to be from environmental exposures