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A genetic link between prepregnancy body mass index, postpartum weight retention, and offspring weight in early childhood.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) - 1 Jan 2017
Li Aihua, Teo Koon K, Morrison Katherine M, McDonald Sarah D, Atkinson Stephanie A, Anand Sonia S, Meyre David
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OBJECTIVE: The effects of maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) on maternal and offspring obesity traits, as well as the maternal and offspring genetic contribution to GWG and postpartum weight retention, were examined. METHODS: Blood samples from mothers (n = 608) and offspring (n = 541) were genotyped for 83 BMI-associated SNPs and 47 waist-to-hip ratio (WHR)-associated...
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