Zygosity Differences in Height and Body Mass Index of Twins From Infancy to Old Age : A Study of the CODATwins Project
Jelenkovic, Aline (författare)
Univ Helsinki, Dept Social Res, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland.;Univ Basque Country UPV EHU, Dept Genet Phys Anthropol & Anim Physiol, Leioa, Spain.,Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa, Spain
Yokoyama, Yoshie (författare)
Osaka City Univ, Dept Publ Hlth Nursing, Osaka 558, Japan.
Sund, Reijo (författare)
Univ Helsinki, Dept Social Res, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland.
Univ Hosp Leuven, Ctr Human Genet, Leuven, Belgium.
Vlietinck, Robert F. (författare)
Univ Hosp Leuven, Ctr Human Genet, Leuven, Belgium.
Loos, Ruth J. F. (författare)
Icahn Sch Med Mt Sinai, Mindich Child Hlth & Dev Inst, Charles Bronfman Inst Personalized Med, New York, NY 10029 USA.
Cozen, Wendy (författare)
Univ So Calif, Keck Sch Med, Dept Prevent Med, Los Angeles, CA 90033 USA.;Univ So Calif, Kenneth Norris Jr Comprehens Canc Ctr, Los Angeles, CA 90033 USA.
Hwang, Amie E. (författare)
Univ So Calif, Keck Sch Med, Dept Prevent Med, Los Angeles, CA 90033 USA.
Mack, Thomas M. (författare)
Univ So Calif, Keck Sch Med, Dept Prevent Med, Los Angeles, CA 90033 USA.;Univ So Calif, Kenneth Norris Jr Comprehens Canc Ctr, Los Angeles, CA 90033 USA.
He, Mingguang (författare)
Sun Yat Sen Univ, State Key Lab Ophthalmol, Zhongshan Ophthalm Ctr, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, Peoples R China.;Univ Melbourne, Ctr Eye Res Australia, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.
Ding, Xiaohu (författare)
Sun Yat Sen Univ, State Key Lab Ophthalmol, Zhongshan Ophthalm Ctr, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, Peoples R China.
Chang, Billy (författare)
Sun Yat Sen Univ, State Key Lab Ophthalmol, Zhongshan Ophthalm Ctr, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, Peoples R China.
Silberg, Judy L. (författare)
Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Virginia Inst Psychiat & Behav Genet, Dept Human & Mol Genet, Richmond, VA USA.
Eaves, Lindon J. (författare)
Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Virginia Inst Psychiat & Behav Genet, Dept Human & Mol Genet, Richmond, VA USA.
Maes, Hermine H. (författare)
Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Psychiat & Massey Canc Ctr, Dept Human & Mol Genet, Richmond, VA USA.
Karolinska Inst, Dept Med Epidemiol & Biostat, Stockholm, Sweden.
Pedersen, Nancy L. (författare)
Karolinska Inst, Dept Med Epidemiol & Biostat, Stockholm, Sweden.
Aslan, Anna K. Dahl (författare)
Högskolan i Jönköping,HHJ, Institutet för gerontologi,HHJ. Åldrande - livsvillkor och hälsa
Song, Yun-Mi (författare)
Sungkyunkwan Univ, Sch Med, Samsung Med Ctr, Dept Family Med, Seoul, South Korea.
Yang, Sarah (författare)
Seoul Natl Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Epidemiol, Seoul, South Korea.;Seoul Natl Univ, Inst Hlth & Environm, Seoul, South Korea.
Lee, Kayoung (författare)
Inje Univ, Coll Med, Busan Paik Hosp, Dept Family Med, Busan, South Korea.
Baker, Laura A. (författare)
Univ So Calif, Dept Psychol, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA.
Tuvblad, Catherine (författare)
Örebro universitet,Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete,Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA, USA,Univ So Calif, Dept Psychol, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA.;Univ Orebro, Sch Law Psychol & Social Work, SE-70182 Orebro, Sweden.
Univ Helsinki, Dept Social Res, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland.;Osaka Univ, Osaka Univ Grad Sch Med, Osaka, Japan.,Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Univ Helsinki, Dept Social Res, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland;Univ Basque Country UPV EHU, Dept Genet Phys Anthropol & Anim Physiol, Leioa, Spain. Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa, Spain (creator_code:org_t)
Cambridge University Press, 2015
2015
Engelska.
Ingår i: Twin Research and Human Genetics. - : Cambridge University Press. - 1832-4274 .- 1839-2628. ; 18:5, s. 557-570
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 vary by age. We analyzed zygosity differences in mean values and variances of height and body mass index (BMI) among male and female twins from infancy to old age. Data were derived from an international database of 54 twin cohorts participating in the COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins), and included 842,951 height and BMI measurements from twins aged 1 to 102 years. The results showed that DZ twins were consistently taller than MZ twins, with differences of up to 2.0 cm in childhood and adolescence and up to 0.9 cm in adulthood. Similarly, a greater mean BMI of up to 0.3 kg/m(2) in childhood and adolescence and up to 0.2 kg/m(2) in adulthood was observed in DZ twins, although the pattern was less consistent. DZ twins presented up to 1.7% greater height and 1.9% greater BMI than MZ twins; these percentage differences were largest in middle and late childhood and decreased with age in both sexes. The variance of height was similar in MZ and DZ twins at most ages. In contrast, the variance of BMI was significantly higher in DZ than in MZ twins, particularly in childhood. In conclusion, DZ twins were generally taller and had greater BMI than MZ twins, but the differences decreased with age in both sexes.
Ämnesord
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Basic Medicine -- Medical Genetics (hsv//eng)
MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper -- Medicinsk genetik (hsv//swe)
MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper (hsv//swe)
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Basic Medicine (hsv//eng)
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine (hsv//eng)
MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Reproduktionsmedicin och gynekologi (hsv//swe)
MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin (hsv//swe)
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine (hsv//eng)