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The heritability of body mass index among an international sample of monozygotic twins reared apart.
International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity - 1 Jun 1996
Allison D B, Kaprio J, Korkeila M, Koskenvuo M, Neale M C, Hayakawa K
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Published heritability estimates (h2) for body mass index (BMI) range from as low as 0.05 to as high as 0.90. The purpose of this paper is to introduce new data to help narrow the range of plausible estimates. SUBJECTS: Subjects were 53 pairs (23 M; 30 F) of monozygotic twins reared apart (MZAs), whose mean BMI was 24.2 (SD = 4.7). BMI's were transformed to approximate normality via the Box-Cox...
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