Education modifies genetic and environmental influences on BMI.
Obesity is more common among the less educated, suggesting education-related environmental triggers. Such triggers may act differently dependent on genetic and environmental predisposition to obesity. In a Danish Twin Registry survey, 21,522 twins of same-sex pairs provided zygosity, height, weight,...
Main Authors: | Wendy Johnson, Kirsten Ohm Kyvik, Axel Skytthe, Ian J Deary, Thorkild I A Sørensen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3023797?pdf=render |
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