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Title
Obesity-susceptibility loci have a limited influence on birth weight: a meta-analysis of up to 28,219 individuals.
Authors
Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O; den Hoed, Marcel; Ong, Ken K; Grøntved, Anders; Brage, Soren; Jameson, Karen; Cooper, Cyrus; Khaw, Kay-Tee; Ekelund, Ulf; Wareham, Nicholas J; Loos, Ruth J F; Early Growth Genetics Consortium
Abstract
High birth weight is associated with adult body mass index (BMI). We hypothesized that birth weight and BMI may partly share a common genetic background.
Publication
The American journal of clinical nutrition, 2011, Vol 93, Issue 4, p851