Article
Disentangling the link between maternal influences on birth weight and disease risk in 36,211 genotyped mother-child pairs
2023-10-18
Abstract excerpt
Epidemiological studies have robustly linked lower birth weight to later-life disease risks. These observations may reflect the adverse impact of intrauterine growth restriction on a child’s health. However, causal evidence supporting such a mechanism in humans is largely lacking. Using Mendelian Randomization and 36,211 genotyped mother-child pairs from the FinnGen study, we assessed the relationship between intr...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6fe9f4f9-469b-5999-a3bf-5f2d3114786b
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.10.17.23297154
