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15.8. Variation in the heritability of child body mass index by obesogenic home environment

S Schrempft , CHM van Jaarsveld , A Fisher , M Herle , AD Smith , A Fildes , CH Llewellyn

To read the full abstract: JAMA Pediatr 2018;172:1153–1160.This paper describes a gene-environment interaction twin study in 925 UK families (1850 twins). The heritability of childhood BMI was calculated by comparing the concordance in BMI at mean age 4.1 years between monozygous and dizygous twins; heritability was much higher among more obesogenic households (h2=8...