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    Maternal and fetal genetic contribution to gestational weight gain

    Clinical recommendations to limit gestational weight gain (GWG) imply high GWG is causally related to adverse outcomes in mother or offspring, but GWG is the sum of several inter-related complex phenotypes (ma...

    N M Warrington, R Richmond, B Fenstra, R Myhre in International Journal of Obesity (2018)

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    Genetic predisposition to adiposity is associated with increased objectively assessed sedentary time in young children

    Increased sedentariness has been linked to the growing prevalence of obesity in children, but some longitudinal studies suggest that sedentariness may be a consequence rather than a cause of increased adiposit...

    T M Schnurr, A Viitasalo, A-M Eloranta, C T Damsgaard in International Journal of Obesity (2018)

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    Downregulation of genes involved in NFκB activation in peripheral blood mononuclear cells after weight loss is associated with the improvement of insulin sensitivity in individuals with the metabolic syndrome: the GENOBIN study

    The transcription factor nuclear factor-kappa-B (NFκB) is implicated in inflammatory responses, obesity and the metabolic syndrome, while immune cells appear to play a central role in mediating insulin resista...

    V. D. F. de Mello, M. Kolehmainen, L. Pulkkinen, U. Schwab, U. Mager in Diabetologia (2008)