Article
Common major gene inheritance of extreme overweight.
Human biology - 1 Dec 1990
Price R A, Ness R, Laskarzewski P
Abstract excerpt
We studied 3925 individuals in 961 families to determine the mode of inheritance of overweight. As an index of overweight, we examined body mass index. Our analyses indicate that the most likely genetic model for susceptibility to overweight included moderate polygenic inheritance (34% of varianc...
Topics
- Adult
- Body Mass Index
- Causality
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genes, Recessive
- Genetic Variation
- Homozygote
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Models, Genetic
- Obesity