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The influence of transmitted and non-transmitted parental BMI-associated alleles on the risk of overweight in childhood.
Scientific reports - 16 Mar 2020
Schnurr Theresia M, Morgen Camilla S, Borisevich Dmitrii, Beaumont Robin N, Engelbrechtsen Line, Ängquist Lars, Have Christian T, Freathy Rachel M, Smith George Davey, Nohr Ellen A, Hansen Torben, Sørensen Thorkild I A
Abstract excerpt
Overweight in children is strongly associated with parental body mass index (BMI) and overweight. We assessed parental transmitted and non-transmitted genetic contributions to overweight in children from the Danish National Birth Cohort by constructing genetic risk scores (GRSs) from 941 common genetic variants associated with adult BMI and estimating associations of transmitted maternal/paternal and...
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