Increasing heritability of BMI and stronger associations with the FTO gene over childhood

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2663-2668

  Haworth, Claire M A ^a   Carnell, Susan ^b   Meaburn, Emma L ^a   Davis, Oliver S P ^a   Plomin, Robert ^a   Wardle, Jane ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FTO PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY MASS; CHILD; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TWINS; UNITED KINGDOM;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TWINS;

EID: 58149303021     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.434     Document Type: Article

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