Heritability estimates of body size in fetal life and early childhood

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Mook Kanamori, Dennis O ^a,b   van Beijsterveldt, Catharina E M ^c   Steegers, Eric A P ^a   Aulchenko, Yurii S ^a   Raat, Hein ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   Eilers, Paul H ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^c   Jaddoe, Vincent W V ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS WEIGHT; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TWINS;

BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL WEIGHT; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; REGISTRIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84864658669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039901     Document Type: Article

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