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The heritability of BMI varies across the range of BMI-a heritability curve analysis in a twin cohort.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Oct 2022
Azzolini Francesca, Berentsen Geir D, Skaug Hans J, Hjelmborg Jacob V B, Kaprio Jaakko A
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BACKGROUND: The heritability of traits such as body mass index (BMI), a measure of obesity, is generally estimated using family and twin studies, and increasingly by molecular genetic approaches. These studies generally assume that genetic effects are uniform across all trait values, yet there is emerging evidence that this may not always be the case. METHOD/SUBJECTS: This paper analyzes twin data using a...
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