Transmission through the female line of a mechanism constraining human fetal growth

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 245-250

  Ounsted, M ^a   Scott, A ^a   Ounsted, C ^b  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Park Hospital for Children Oxford   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; MATERNAL EFFECT; MATERNAL HEALTH; WEIGHT;

ADDITION LINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC LINE; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SIBLING; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 41849146761     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyn008     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Walton, A., and Hammond, J. Maternal effects on growth and conformation in Shire horse-Shetland pony crosses. Proceedings of the Royal Society, 125B, 1938;311-34.
2. Joubert, D.M., and Hammond, I. A cross-breeding experiment with cattle, with special reference to the maternal effect in South Devon-Dexter crosses. Journal of Agricultural Science, 1958;51:325-41.
3. Venge, O. Maternal influence in rabbits. Acta Zoologica, 1950; 31:1-48.
4. Morton, N.E. The inheritance of human birthweight. Annals of Human Genetics, 1955;20:125-33
5. Bader, P.I., Bingle, G.J., Yu, P-L., and Nance W.E. Birthweights of offspring of maternal and paternal identical twins, Pediatric Research, 1973;7:346/118 (Abstract)
6. Robson, E.B. Birthweight in cousins. Annals of Human Genetics, 1955;19:262-68.
7. Ounsted, M., and Ounsted, C. Rate of intrauterine growth. Nature, 1968;220:599-600
8. Ounsted, M., and Ounsted, C. On Fetal Growth Rate. Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 46, Spastics International Medical Publications 1973, (London: Heinemann).
9. Ounsted, M., Moar, V.A., and Scott, A. Risk factors associated with small- for-dates and large- for-dates pregnancies. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1985;92:226-32
10. Butler, N.R., and Alberman, E.D. Perinatal Problems. Edinburgh: E&S Livingstone 1969.
11. Lubchenco, L.O., Hansman, C., Dressler, M., and Boyd, E. Intrauterine growth as estimated from liveborn birthweight data at 24-42 weeks of gestation. Pediatrics, 1963;32:793-800.
12. Neligan, G. A community study of the relationship between birthweight and gestational age. In Gestational Age, Size and Maturity. Clinics in Developmental Medicine, No. 19, edited by M. Dawkings and B. MacGregor (London: Heinemann) 1965, pp. 28-32.
13. Neligan, G.A., Kolvin, I., Scott, D.McL., and Garside, R.F. Born too Soon, Born to Small. Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 61. 1976. London: Heinemann.
14. Karn, M.N., Lang-Brown, H., Mackenzie, H., and Penrose, L.S. Birthweight, gestation time and survival in siblings. Annals of Eugenics, 1951;15:306-12.
15. Butler, N.R. In Size at Birth, edited by K. Elliott and J. Knight (Amsterdam: Elsevier), 1974, pp. 379-82.
16. Adelstein, P., and Fedrick, J. Ante-natal identification of women at increased risk of being delivered of a low birthweight infant at term. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1978;85;8-11
17. Bakketeig, L.S., Hoffman, H.J., and Hailey E.E. The tendency to repeat gestational age and birthweight in successive births. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1979;135:1086-103.
18. Johnstone, F., and Inglis L. Familial trends in low birthweight. British Medical Journal, 1974;iii:659-61
19. Toth, P., Keszei, K., and Mehes, K. Maternal regulation of fetal growth, Acta Paediatrica Hungarica, 1983;24:37-40.
20. Robson, E.B. In Human Growth (1), edited by F. Falkner and J.M. Tanner (London: Bailliere Tindall), 1978, pp. 285-97.
21. Ounsted, M., Moar, V., and Scott, A. Growth in the first four years:IV, Correlations with parental measures in small-for-dates and large-for-dates babies. Early Human Development, 1982;7 357-66.
22. Pritchard, C.S., Hamish, W., Sutherland, A., and Carr-Hill, R.A. Birthweight and paternal height. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1983;90:156-61.
23. Meredith, H.V. Body weight at birth of viable human infants: A worldwide comparative treatise. Human.Biology, 1970;42:217-64.
24. Gruenwald,P., Funakawa, H., Mitani, S., Nishimura, I., and Takeuchi, S. Influence of environmental factors on fetal growth in man. Lancet, 1967;i:1026-28.
25. Selvin, S., and Janerich, D.T. Four factors influencing birthweight. British Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine, 1971;25 12-16.
26. Grossman S., Handlesman, Y., and Davies, A.M. Birthweight in Israel 1968-1970, i.Effects of birth order and maternal origin. Journal of Biosocial Science, 1974;6: 43-58.
27. Handlesman, Y., and Davies A.M. Birthweight in Israel 1968-1970, ii. The effect of paternal origin. Journal of Biosocial Science, 1975;7 153-64.
28. Yudkin, P.L., and Harlap S. High birthweight in an ethnic group of low socio-economic status. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 1983;90:291-96.
29. Blurton Jones, N. Natural selection and birthweight. Annals of Human Biology, 1978;5:487-89.
30. Hollingsworth, M.J. Observations on the birthweight and survival of African babies. Annals of Human Genetics, 1965;28:291-300.