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Article
Open AccessGenetic confounding in the association of early motor development with childhood and adolescent exercise behavior
Early motor development has been found to be a predictor of exercise behavior in children and adolescents, but whether this reflects a causal effect or confounding by genetic or shared environmental factors re...
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Article
Open AccessIntergenerational transmission of body mass index and associations with educational attainment
Individual differences in educational attainment (EA) and physical health, as indexed by body mass index (BMI), are correlated within persons and across generations. The present aim was to assess these associa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Twins and the fetal origins hypothesis: An application to growth data
The Barker hypothesis states that size at birth is negatively associated with disease risk later in life. Numerous studies have tested and confirmed this hypothesis in singletons. Using twin (or sibling) data,...
