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Genetic and environmental transactions underlying the association between physical fitness/physical exercise and body composition.
Behavior genetics - 1 Jan 2015
Johnson Wendy, de Ruiter Ingrid, Kyvik Kirsten Ohm, Murray Aja L, Sørensen Thorkild I A
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We examined mean effects and variance moderating effects of measures of physical activity and fitness on six measures of adiposity and their reciprocal effects in a subsample of the population-representative Danish Twin Registry. Consistent with prior studies, higher levels of physical activity suppressed variance in adiposity, but this study provided further insight. Variance suppression appeared to have both...
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