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Maternal and offspring adiposity-related genetic variants and gestational weight gain.
The American journal of clinical nutrition - 1 Jul 2011
Lawlor Debbie A, Fraser Abigail, Macdonald-Wallis Corrie, Nelson Scott M, Palmer Tom M, Davey Smith George, Tilling Kate
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Gestational weight gain (GWG) is associated with a range of health outcomes, but little is known about the factors that influence it. OBJECTIVE: The objective was to test the hypothesis that maternal and fetal genetic variants that are reliably associated with adiposity are associated with GWG. DESIGN: We examined the association of a risk allele score by using 4 adiposity-related single nucleotide...
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