The Response to Long-Term Overfeeding in Identical Twins

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 322, Issue 21, 1990, Pages 1477-1482

  Bouchard, Claude ^a   Tremblay, Angelo ^a   Després, Jean Pierre ^a   Nadeau, André ^a   Lupien, Paul J ^a   Thériault, Germain ^a   Dussault, Jean ^a   Moorjani, Sital ^a   Pinault, Sylvie ^a   Fournier, Guy ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LIPID TRANSPORT; OVERNUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWINS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADULT; BODY COMPOSITION; ENERGY INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPERPHAGIA; MALE; OBESITY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TWINS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0025292829     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199005243222101     Document Type: Article

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