Can Thrifty Gene(s) or Predictive Fetal Programming for Thriftiness Lead to Obesity?

Figure 1

Parameter areas of advantage: (a) when only nonthrifty genotype and fetal programmer compete, (b) when only thrifty genotype and fetal programmer compete. For this and all other figures, (tf1−nf1)/(nf0−tf0) is maintained constant at 1.33.

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(b)