Genetic and non-genetic factors affecting birth-weight and adult body mass index

Twin Research

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 365-370

  Whitfield, John B ^a,b   Treloar, Susan A ^b   Zhu, Gu ^b   Martin, Nicholas G ^b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; OBESITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035715743     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.4.5.365     Document Type: Article

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