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Association between gestational diabetes mellitus exposure and childhood adiposity is not substantially explained by offspring genetic risk of obesity.
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association - 1 Dec 2017
Raghavan S, Zhang W, Yang I V, Lange L A, Lange E M, Fingerlin T E, Dabelea D
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AIM: To examine the extent to which offspring obesity-associated genetic risk explains the association between gestational diabetes mellitus and childhood adiposity. METHODS: We studied 282 children aged 7-12 years who were enrolled in the Exploring Perinatal Outcomes in Children Study. A genetic risk score for BMI was calculated as the count of 91 established BMI-raising risk alleles. Multivariable linear and...
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