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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
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Jelenkovic, Aline 1 ; Sund, Reijo 2
; Yokoyama, Yoshie 3 ; Yoon-Mi Hur 4 ; Ullemar, Vilhelmina 5 ; Almqvist, Catarina 6 ; Patrik KE Magnusson 5
; Willemsen, Gonneke 7 ; Bartels, Meike 7
; Catharina EM van Beijsterveldt 7 ; Bogl, Leonie H 8 ; Pietiläinen, Kirsi H 9 ; Vuoksimaa, Eero 8 ; Ji, Fuling 10 ; Feng, Ning 10 ; Pang, Zengchang 10 ; Nelson, Tracy L 11 ; Whitfield, Keith E 12 ; Rebato, Esther 13 ; Llewellyn, Clare H 14
; Fisher, Abigail 14 ; Bayasgalan, Gombojav 15 ; Narandalai, Danshiitsoodol 16 ; Bjerregaard-Andersen, Morten 17 ; Beck-Nielsen, Henning 18 ; Sodemann, Morten 19 ; Tarnoki, Adam D 20 ; Tarnoki, David L 20 ; Ooki, Syuichi 21 ; Stazi, Maria A 22 ; Fagnani, Corrado 22 ; Brescianini, Sonia 22 ; Dubois, Lise 23 ; Boivin, Michel 24 ; Brendgen, Mara 25 ; Dionne, Ginette 26 ; Vitaro, Frank 27 ; Cutler, Tessa L 28 ; Hopper, John L 29 ; Krueger, Robert F 30
; McGue, Matt 30 ; Pahlen, Shandell 30 ; Craig, Jeffrey M 31
; Saffery, Richard 31
; Claire MA Haworth 32 ; Plomin, Robert 33 ; Knafo-Noam, Ariel 34 ; Mankuta, David 35 ; Abramson, Lior 34 ; Burt, S Alexandra 36 ; Klump, Kelly L 36 ; Vlietinck, Robert F 37 ; Derom, Catherine A 38 ; Loos, Ruth JF 39
; Boomsma, Dorret I 7 ; Sørensen, Thorkild I A 40 ; Kaprio, Jaakko 8
; Silventoinen, Karri 41
1 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
2 Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
3 Department of Public Health Nursing, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan
4 Department of Education, Mokpo National University, Jeonnam, South Korea
5 Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
6 Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
7 Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
8 Institute for Molecular Medicine FIMM, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
9 Obesity Research Unit, Research Programs Unit, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Endocrinology, Abdominal Center, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
10 Department of Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention, Qingdao Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Qingdao, China
11 Department of Health and Exercise Sciencies and Colorado School of Public Health, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
12 Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
13 Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa, Spain
14 Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, UK
15 Healthy Twin Association of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
16 Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan; Healthy Twin Association of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
17 Bandim Health Project, INDEPTH Network, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau; Research Center for Vitamins and Vaccines, Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Endocrinology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
18 Department of Endocrinology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
19 Department of Infectious Diseases, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
20 Department of Radiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; Hungarian Twin Registry, Budapest, Hungary
21 Department of Health Science, Ishikawa Prefectural Nursing University, Kahoku, Ishikawa, Japan
22 Istituto Superiore di Sanità - Centre for Behavioural Sciences and Mental Health, Rome, Italy
23 School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
24 École de psychologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada; Institute of Genetic, Neurobiological, and Social Foundations of Child Development, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation
25 Département de psychologie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
26 École de psychologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
27 École de psychoéducation, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
28 The Australian Twin Registry, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
29 The Australian Twin Registry, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
30 Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
31 Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
32 MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
33 King’s College London, MRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, London, UK
34 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
35 Hadassah Hospital Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
36 Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
37 Centre of Human Genetics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
38 Centre of Human Genetics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ghent University Hospitals, Ghent, Belgium
39 The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
40 Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research (Section of Metabolic Genetics), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Public Health (Section of Epidemiology), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
41 Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
; Yokoyama, Yoshie 3 ; Yoon-Mi Hur 4 ; Ullemar, Vilhelmina 5 ; Almqvist, Catarina 6 ; Patrik KE Magnusson 5
; Willemsen, Gonneke 7 ; Bartels, Meike 7
; Catharina EM van Beijsterveldt 7 ; Bogl, Leonie H 8 ; Pietiläinen, Kirsi H 9 ; Vuoksimaa, Eero 8 ; Ji, Fuling 10 ; Feng, Ning 10 ; Pang, Zengchang 10 ; Nelson, Tracy L 11 ; Whitfield, Keith E 12 ; Rebato, Esther 13 ; Llewellyn, Clare H 14
; Fisher, Abigail 14 ; Bayasgalan, Gombojav 15 ; Narandalai, Danshiitsoodol 16 ; Bjerregaard-Andersen, Morten 17 ; Beck-Nielsen, Henning 18 ; Sodemann, Morten 19 ; Tarnoki, Adam D 20 ; Tarnoki, David L 20 ; Ooki, Syuichi 21 ; Stazi, Maria A 22 ; Fagnani, Corrado 22 ; Brescianini, Sonia 22 ; Dubois, Lise 23 ; Boivin, Michel 24 ; Brendgen, Mara 25 ; Dionne, Ginette 26 ; Vitaro, Frank 27 ; Cutler, Tessa L 28 ; Hopper, John L 29 ; Krueger, Robert F 30
; McGue, Matt 30 ; Pahlen, Shandell 30 ; Craig, Jeffrey M 31
; Saffery, Richard 31
; Claire MA Haworth 32 ; Plomin, Robert 33 ; Knafo-Noam, Ariel 34 ; Mankuta, David 35 ; Abramson, Lior 34 ; Burt, S Alexandra 36 ; Klump, Kelly L 36 ; Vlietinck, Robert F 37 ; Derom, Catherine A 38 ; Loos, Ruth JF 39
; Boomsma, Dorret I 7 ; Sørensen, Thorkild I A 40 ; Kaprio, Jaakko 8
; Silventoinen, Karri 41 1 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
2 Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
3 Department of Public Health Nursing, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan
4 Department of Education, Mokpo National University, Jeonnam, South Korea
5 Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
6 Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
7 Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
8 Institute for Molecular Medicine FIMM, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
9 Obesity Research Unit, Research Programs Unit, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Endocrinology, Abdominal Center, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
10 Department of Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention, Qingdao Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Qingdao, China
11 Department of Health and Exercise Sciencies and Colorado School of Public Health, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
12 Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
13 Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa, Spain
14 Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, UK
15 Healthy Twin Association of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
16 Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan; Healthy Twin Association of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
17 Bandim Health Project, INDEPTH Network, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau; Research Center for Vitamins and Vaccines, Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Endocrinology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
18 Department of Endocrinology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
19 Department of Infectious Diseases, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
20 Department of Radiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; Hungarian Twin Registry, Budapest, Hungary
21 Department of Health Science, Ishikawa Prefectural Nursing University, Kahoku, Ishikawa, Japan
22 Istituto Superiore di Sanità - Centre for Behavioural Sciences and Mental Health, Rome, Italy
23 School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
24 École de psychologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada; Institute of Genetic, Neurobiological, and Social Foundations of Child Development, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation
25 Département de psychologie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
26 École de psychologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
27 École de psychoéducation, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
28 The Australian Twin Registry, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
29 The Australian Twin Registry, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
30 Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
31 Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
32 MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
33 King’s College London, MRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, London, UK
34 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
35 Hadassah Hospital Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
36 Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
37 Centre of Human Genetics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
38 Centre of Human Genetics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ghent University Hospitals, Ghent, Belgium
39 The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
40 Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research (Section of Metabolic Genetics), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Public Health (Section of Epidemiology), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
41 Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Pages
1-8
Publication year
2018
Publication date
Apr 2018
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2027569924
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