Browsing by Author "Sugawara, Masumi"
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Genetic and environmental influences on human height from infancy through adulthood at different levels of parental education
Jelenkovic, Aline; Sund, Reijo; Yokoyama, Yoshie; Latvala, Antti; Sugawara, Masumi; Tanaka, Mami; Matsumoto, Satoko (NATURE RESEARCH, 2020)Genetic factors explain a major proportion of human height variation, but differences in mean stature have also been found between socio-economic categories suggesting a possible effect of environment. By utilizing a ... -
Parental Education and Genetics of BMI from Infancy to Old Age: A Pooled Analysis of 29 Twin Cohorts
Silventoinen, Karri; Jelenkovic, Aline; Latvala, Antti; Yokoyama, Yoshie; Sund, Reijo; Sugawara, Masumi; Kaprio, Jaakko (Wiley, 2019)Objective The objective of this study was to analyze how parental education modifies the genetic and environmental variances of BMI from infancy to old age in three geographic-cultural regions. Methods A pooled sample of ...