The positive association of obesity variants with adulthood adiposity strengthens over an 80-year period: A gene-by-birth year interaction

Human Heredity

Volumn 75, Issue , 2013, Pages 175-185

  Demerath, Ellen W ^a   Choh, Audrey C ^b   Johnson, William ^a,e   Curran, Joanne E ^d   Lee, Miryoung ^b,c   Bellis, Claire ^d   Dyer, Thomas D ^d   Czerwinski, Stefan A ^b   Blangero, John ^d   Towne, Bradford ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Departments of Community Health and   (United States)

^c WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adiposity; Body mass index; Gene; Gene by environment interaction; Genetic; Heritability; Interaction; Obesity; Risk score; Secular trend; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH YEAR; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERITABILITY; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOSITY; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; OBESITY; PARTURITION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84885008283     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000351742     Document Type: Article

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