Journal article
Influence of puberty timing on adiposity and cardiometabolic traits: A Mendelian randomisation study
- Abstract:
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Background
Earlier puberty is widely linked with future obesity and cardiometabolic disease. We examined whether age at puberty onset likely influences adiposity and cardiometabolic traits independent of childhood adiposity.
Methods and findings
One-sample Mendelian randomisation (MR) analyses were conducted on up to 3,611 white-European female and male offspring from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) cohort recruited at birth via mother...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
Diabetes UK
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National Institute for Health Research
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 8
- Pages:
- e1002641
- Publication date:
- 2018-08-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-07-25
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1549-1676
- ISSN:
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1549-1277
- Pmid:
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30153260
- Source identifiers:
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915266
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:915266
- UUID:
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uuid:9e21a0c0-a8a9-4ad3-a1e1-8514c9129fe8
- Local pid:
- pubs:915266
- Deposit date:
- 2018-11-21
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Bell et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © 2018 Bell et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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