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The significant effects of puberty on the genetic diathesis of binge eating in girls.
The International journal of eating disorders - 1 Aug 2017
Klump Kelly L, Culbert Kristen M, O'Connor Shannon, Fowler Natasha, Burt S Alexandra
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OBJECTIVE: Recent data show significant phenotypic and genetic associations between ovarian hormones and binge eating in adulthood. Theories of hormonal risk focus on puberty and the possibility that hormone activation induces changes in genetic effects that then lead to differential risk for binge eating in postpuberty and adulthood. Although this theory is difficult to test in humans, an indirect test is to...
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