Article
Obesity in Pima Indians: genetic segregation analyses of body mass index complicated by temporal increases in obesity.
Human biology - 1 Apr 1994
Price R A, Charles M A, Pettitt D J, Knowler W C
Abstract excerpt
During the past half-century the prevalence of obesity in developed countries has increased greatly. Such short-term changes in prevalence must be environmentally determined, but genes can mediate response to environmental change, for example, through variable gene penetrance and expression. Obesity differences between bith cohorts complicate the interpretation of phenotypic comparisons between generations that...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Arizona
- Body Mass Index
- Cohort Studies
- Disease Susceptibility
- Family
- Female
- Genes, Recessive
- Humans
- Indians, Central American
- Longitudinal Studies