Invited commentary: two studies of genetic control of birth weight where large data sets were available.

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Physical size at birth (primarily birth weight) is a key predictor of infant mortality and morbidity and may serve as a predictor of risk to chronic disease in adulthood. By use of birth records, it is sometimes possible to accumulate large, even massive, data sets that can permit analyses to separate genetic and environmental factors controlling variation in the complex phenotype, birth weight. Two studies of...

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