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

It is suggested that maternal adiposity has a stronger association with offspring adiposity than does paternal adiposity. Furthermore, a recent small study reported gender assortment in parental-offspring adiposity associations. We aimed to examine these associations in one of the largest studies to...

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Main Authors: Rita Patel, Richard M Martin, Michael S Kramer, Emily Oken, Natalia Bogdanovich, Lidia Matush, George Davey Smith, Debbie A Lawlor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3029263?pdf=render