Could lead to treatments for obesity

By Tamara Cohen

PUBLISHED: 14:28 EST, 18 March 2012 | UPDATED: 14:28 EST, 18 March 2012

The secret to staying slim may be all in your genes.

Scientists believe they have found the gluttony gene which fails to tell your brain when you are full.

In tests on mice, they showed that a mutation on a single gene broke down communication in the body and led to non-stop eating and rapid weight gain.

Gut buster: Scientists believe they have uncovered a gene which makes you eat even when are full because it breaks down communication between the body and the brain

But the good news is, they hope identifying the gene could help with treatments for obesity which affects nearly one in four adults in the UK.

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Centre in the U.S. studied variations in the Bdnf gene in mice.

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