Exploring the developmental overnutrition hypothesis using parental-offspring associations and FTO as an instrumental variable

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 0484-0493

  Lawlor, Debbie A ^a   Timpson, Nicholas J ^a,b   Harbord, Roger M ^a   Leary, Sam ^a   Ness, Andy ^a   McCarthy, Mark I ^b,c   Frayling, Timothy M ^d   Hattersley, Andrew T ^d   Smith, George Davey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FAT MASS AND OBESITY ASSOCIATED GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; OVERNUTRITION; PATERNITY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; GENETICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

FTO PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHERS; OBESITY; OVERNUTRITION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROTEINS;

EID: 41549098247     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050033     Document Type: Article

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