About the Authors
- Rebecca C. Richmond
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Affiliations School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Oleg Skugarevsky
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Affiliation Psychiatry and Medical Psychology Department, Belarussian State Medical University, Minsk, Belarus
- Seungmi Yang
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Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Canada
- Michael S. Kramer
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Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Canada
- Kaitlin H. Wade
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Affiliations School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Rita Patel
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Affiliation School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Natalia Bogdanovich
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Affiliation The National Research and Applied Medicine Mother and Child Centre, Minsk, Belarus
- Konstantin Vilchuck
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Affiliation The National Research and Applied Medicine Mother and Child Centre, Minsk, Belarus
- Natalia Sergeichick
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Affiliation The National Research and Applied Medicine Mother and Child Centre, Minsk, Belarus
- George Davey Smith
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Affiliations School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Emily Oken
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Affiliation Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Richard M. Martin
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* E-mail: Richard.martin@bristol.ac.uk
Affiliations School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Bristol Biomedical Research Unit in Nutrition, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust and University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
Emily Oken has given an invited talk for Nestle Nutrition Institute in 2011 on secular trends in birth weight. Richard M. Martin gave an invited talk for the Nestle Nutrition Institute in 2010 on the role of the insulin-like growth factor system in growth and chronic disease risk. Michael S. Kramer has received unrelated meeting expenses from the Nestle Nutrition Institute. All other authors declare no conflict of interest. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MK GDS EO RMM. Performed the experiments: OS RP NB KV NS. Analyzed the data: RCR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SY KHW. Wrote the paper: RCR RMM.