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Education modifies genetic and environmental influences on BMI.

PloS one - 19 Jan 2011

Johnson Wendy, Kyvik Kirsten Ohm, Skytthe Axel, Deary Ian J, Sørensen Thorkild I A

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Obesity is more common among the less educated, suggesting education-related environmental triggers. Such triggers may act differently dependent on genetic and environmental predisposition to obesity. In a Danish Twin Registry survey, 21,522 twins of same-sex pairs provided zygosity, height, weight, and education data. Body mass index (BMI = kg weight/ m height(2)) was used to measure degree of obesity. We used...

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PMID: 21283825
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016290
PMCID: PMC3023797

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