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Genes and the intergenerational transmission of BMI and obesity.

Economics and human biology - 1 Dec 2016

Classen Timothy J, Thompson Owen

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This paper compares the strength of intergenerational transmission of body mass index (BMI) and obesity in a sample of adoptees relative to a matched sample of biological children with similar observable characteristics. We find that BMI and obesity are strongly correlated among biological parent-child pairs, but there are no significant intergenerational associations in these health traits among adoptive...

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PMID: 27599025
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2016.08.001

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