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Exploring the developmental overnutrition hypothesis using parental-offspring associations and FTO as an instrumental variable.
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BACKGROUND: The developmental overnutrition hypothesis suggests that greater maternal obesity during pregnancy results in increased offspring adiposity in later life. If true, this would result in the obesity epidemic progressing across generations irrespective of environmental or genetic changes. It is therefore important to robustly test this hypothesis. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We explored this hypothesis by comparing the associations of maternal and paternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BM...
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- Journal:
- PLoS medicine
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- e33
- Publication date:
- 2008-03-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1549-1676
- ISSN:
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1549-1277
- Source identifiers:
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93113
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:93113
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- Local pid:
- pubs:93113
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- 2008
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