Familial associations of adiposity: Findings from a cross-sectional study of 12,181 parental-offspring trios from Belarus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Patel, Rita ^a   Martin, Richard M ^a   Kramer, Michael S ^b   Oken, Emily ^c   Bogdanovich, Natalia ^d   Matush, Lidia ^d   Smith, George Davey ^a   Lawlor, Debbie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d National Research and Applied Medicine Mother and Child Centre Minsk   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELARUS; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCOME; INFANT; MALE; OBESITY; PARENTAL AGE; POLITICS; PROGENY; SCAPULAR FLAP; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ADULT; CHILD; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY; FATHER; GENETICS; MOTHER; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADIPOSITY; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY; FATHERS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHERS; REPUBLIC OF BELARUS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 79551521097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014607     Document Type: Article

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