But PPARgamma drugs come with an annoying side effect: They make patients fatter.
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Patients with a mutant version of the PPARgamma gene have a 25% higher risk of developing adult-onset diabetes, in which cells stop responding to insulin's orders.
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And PPARgamma is the best understood of the three.