Life-course analysis of a fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene variant and body mass index in the northern Finland birth cohort 1966 using structural equation modeling

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 172, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 653-665

  Kaakinen, Marika ^a   Läärä, Esa ^a   Pouta, Anneli ^a   Hartikainen, Anna Liisa ^a   Laitinen, Jaana ^a   Tammelin, Tuija H ^a   Herzig, Karl Heinz ^a   Sovio, Ulla ^a   Bennett, Amanda J ^a   Peltonen, Leena ^a   McCarthy, Mark I ^a   Elliott, Paul ^a   De Stavola, Bianca ^a   Järvelin, Marjo Riitta ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

body mass index; molecular epidemiology; structural equation model

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAT; GENETIC VARIATION; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT MASS AND OBESITY ASSOCIATED GENE; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; ADOLESCENT; ARCTIC; DIET; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXERCISE; GENETICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ARCTIC REGIONS; BODY MASS INDEX; DIET; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEINS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

FINLAND;

FTO PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN;

EID: 77956894257     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq178     Document Type: Article

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