Polygenic Prediction of Weight and Obesity Trajectories from Birth to Adulthood

Polygenic Prediction of Weight and Obesity Trajectories from Birth to Adulthood

Severe obesity is a rapidly growing global health threat. Although often attributed to unhealthy lifestyle choices or environmental factors, obesity is known to be heritable and highly polygenic; the majority of inherited susceptibility is related to the cumulative effect of many common DNA variants...

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Main Authors: Khera, Amit V., Chaffin, Mark, Wade, Kaitlin H., Zahid, Sohail, Brancale, Joseph, Xia, Rui, Distefano, Marina, Senol-Cosar, Ozlem, Haas, Mary E., Bick, Alexander, Aragam, Krishna G., Lander, Eric Steven, Smith, George Davey, Mason-Suares, Heather, Fornage, Myriam, Lebo, Matthew, Timpson, Nicholas J., Kaplan, Lee M., Kathiresan, Sekar
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125217

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