Open AccessThe Positive Association of Obesity Variants with Adulthood Adiposity Strengthens over an 80-Year Period: A Gene-by-Birth Year Interaction
Author(s) -
Ellen W. Demerath,
Audrey C. Choh,
William Johnson,
Joanne E. Curran,
Miryoung Lee,
Claire Bellis,
Thomas D. Dyer,
Stefan A. Czerwinski,
John Blangero,
Bradford Towne
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
human heredity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.423
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1423-0062
pISSN - 0001-5652
DOI - 10.1159/000351742
Subject(s) - waist , obesity , demography , body mass index , medicine , longitudinal study , birth weight , trait , biology , pregnancy , genetics , sociology , pathology , computer science , programming language
To test the hypothesis that the statistical effect of obesity-related genetic variants on adulthood adiposity traits depends on birth year.
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