Body Size of Twins Compared with Siblings and the General Population: From Birth to Late Adolescence

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 586-591

  Estourgie van Burk, G Frederiek ^a,b   Bartels, Meike ^b   Boomsma, Dorret I ^b   Delemarre van de Waal, Henriette A ^a,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; BODY SIZE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; SIBLINGS; TWINS;

EID: 77949492287     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.10.045     Document Type: Article

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