Search Results - "Whitfield, KE"
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Differences in genetic and environmental variation in adult BMI by sex, age, time period, and region: an individual-based pooled analysis of 40 twin cohorts
Published in The American journal of clinical nutrition (01-08-2017)“…Genes and the environment contribute to variation in adult body mass index [BMI (in kg/m2)], but factors modifying these variance components are poorly…”
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Parental Education and Genetics of BMI from Infancy to Old Age: A Pooled Analysis of 29 Twin Cohorts
Published in Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (01-05-2019)“…Objective The objective of this study was to analyze how parental education modifies the genetic and environmental variances of BMI from infancy to old age in…”
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Genetic and environmental influences on human height from infancy through adulthood at different levels of parental education
Published in Scientific reports (14-05-2020)“…Genetic factors explain a major proportion of human height variation, but differences in mean stature have also been found between socio-economic categories…”
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Genetic and environmental factors affecting birth size variation: a pooled individual-based analysis of secular trends and global geographical differences using 26 twin cohorts
Published in International journal of epidemiology (01-08-2018)“…Abstract Background The genetic architecture of birth size may differ geographically and over time. We examined differences in the genetic and environmental…”
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Examining The Utility Of The Everyday Cognition Memory Test To Identify Mild Cognitive Impairment In African American Elders
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PMH53 - Examining The Utility Of The Everyday Cognition Memory Test To Identify Mild Cognitive Impairment In African American Elders
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PIH1 - Daily Reports of Pain are Associated with Duration and Quality of Sleep in African American Older Adults
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Daily Reports of Pain are Associated with Duration and Quality of Sleep in African American Older Adults
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Remember this: Age moderation of genetic and environmental contributions to verbal episodic memory from midlife through late adulthood
Published in Intelligence (Norwood) (01-07-2023)“…It is well documented that memory is heritable and that older adults tend to have poorer memory performance than younger adults. However, whether the…”
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The CODATwins Project: The Current Status and Recent Findings of COllaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins
Published in Twin research and human genetics (01-12-2019)“…The COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins) project is a large international collaborative effort to analyze…”
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Association between birthweight and later body mass index: an individual-based pooled analysis of 27 twin cohorts participating in the CODATwins project
Published in International journal of epidemiology (01-10-2017)“…There is evidence that birthweight is positively associated with body mass index (BMI) in later life, but it remains unclear whether this is explained by…”
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IGEMS: The Consortium on Interplay of Genes and Environment Across Multiple Studies - An Update
Published in Twin research and human genetics (01-12-2019)“…The Interplay of Genes and Environment across Multiple Studies (IGEMS) is a consortium of 18 twin studies from 5 different countries (Sweden, Denmark, Finland,…”
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Birth size and gestational age in opposite-sex twins as compared to same-sex twins: An individual-based pooled analysis of 21 cohorts
Published in Scientific reports (19-04-2018)“…It is well established that boys are born heavier and longer than girls, but it remains unclear whether birth size in twins is affected by the sex of their…”
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The CODATwins Project: The Cohort Description of Collaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins to Study Macro-Environmental Variation in Genetic and Environmental Effects on Anthropometric Traits
Published in Twin research and human genetics (01-08-2015)“…For over 100 years, the genetics of human anthropometric traits has attracted scientific interest. In particular, height and body mass index (BMI, calculated…”
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Genetic and environmental influences on adult human height across birth cohorts from 1886 to 1994
Published in eLife (14-12-2016)“…Human height variation is determined by genetic and environmental factors, but it remains unclear whether their influences differ across birth-year cohorts. We…”
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Associations between birth size and later height from infancy through adulthood: An individual based pooled analysis of 28 twin cohorts participating in the CODATwins project
Published in Early human development (01-05-2018)“…There is evidence that birth size is positively associated with height in later life, but it remains unclear whether this is explained by genetic factors or…”
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Association between birth weight and educational attainment: an individual-based pooled analysis of nine twin cohorts
Published in Journal of epidemiology and community health (1979) (01-09-2018)“…BackgroundThere is evidence that birth weight is positively associated with education, but it remains unclear whether this association is explained by familial…”
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Financial strain moderates genetic influences on self-rated health: support for diathesis-stress model of gene-environment interplay
Published in Biodemography and social biology (2022)“…Data from the Interplay of Genes and Environment across Multiple Studies (IGEMS) consortium were used to examine predictions of different models of…”
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Twin's Birth-Order Differences in Height and Body Mass Index From Birth to Old Age: A Pooled Study of 26 Twin Cohorts Participating in the CODATwins Project
Published in Twin research and human genetics (01-04-2016)“…We analyzed birth order differences in means and variances of height and body mass index (BMI) in monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins from infancy to old…”
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Zygosity Differences in Height and Body Mass Index of Twins From Infancy to Old Age: A Study of the CODATwins Project
Published in Twin research and human genetics (01-10-2015)“…A trend toward greater body size in dizygotic (DZ) than in monozygotic (MZ) twins has been suggested by some but not all studies, and this difference may also…”
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