Missing DNA can promot childhood obesity

I found this article in Yahoo News. Some children become obese by age 10. British researchers said that this was due to a deletion on chromosone 16. This deletion of this gene is a gene that gives signals to the brain of appetite controlling.

The British researchers checked the DNA of 300 children who'd become very fat, on the order of 220 pounds by age 10. They looked for deletions or extra copies of DNA segments.

They found evidence that several rare deletions may promote obesity,

I think this is a really interesting article. Now we can all know that some children get obese due to a chromosone deletion. Some people think that parents give thier children to much to eat but thats not really the case. It actually has to due with DNA chromosone.