Developmental Origin of Fat: Tracking Obesity to Its Source

@article{Gesta2007DevelopmentalOO, title={Developmental Origin of Fat: Tracking Obesity to Its Source}, author={Stéphane Gesta and Yu-Hua Tseng and Ronald Kahn and Angiotensinogen and Peter K Jackson and Peter K Jackson}, journal={Cell}, year={2007}, volume={131}, pages={242-256}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:52808888} }
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