Obesity-susceptibility loci have a limited influence on birth weight: a meta-analysis of up to 28,219 individuals
Author(s) -
Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen,
Marcel den Hoed,
Ken K. Ong,
Anders Grøntved,
Søren Brage,
Early Growth Genetics Consortium,
Karen Jameson,
Cyrus Cooper,
KayTee Khaw,
Ulf Ekelund,
Nicholas J Wareham,
Ruth J. F. Loos
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
american journal of clinical nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.608
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1938-3207
pISSN - 0002-9165
DOI - 10.3945/ajcn.110.000828
Subject(s) - obesity , birth weight , body mass index , genome wide association study , allele , medicine , meta analysis , demography , genetics , biology , single nucleotide polymorphism , genotype , pregnancy , gene , sociology
High birth weight is associated with adult body mass index (BMI). We hypothesized that birth weight and BMI may partly share a common genetic background.
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