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Influence of puberty timing on adiposity and cardiometabolic traits: A Mendelian randomisation study.
PLoS medicine - 1 Aug 2018
Bell Joshua A, Carslake David, Wade Kaitlin H, Richmond Rebecca C, Langdon Ryan J, Vincent Emma E, Holmes Michael V, Timpson Nicholas J, Davey Smith George
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Earlier puberty is widely linked with future obesity and cardiometabolic disease. We examined whether age at puberty onset likely influences adiposity and cardiometabolic traits independent of childhood adiposity. METHODS AND FINDINGS: One-sample Mendelian randomisation (MR) analyses were conducted on up to 3,611 white-European female and male offspring from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and...
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