Is Socioeconomic Status of the Rearing Environment Causally Related to Obesity in the Offspring?

• Kevin R. Fontaine,

  Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Henry T. Robertson,

  Affiliation Section on Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Claus Holst,

  Affiliation The Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Renee Desmond,

  Affiliations Clinical Nutrition Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Albert J. Stunkard,

  Affiliation Weight and Eating Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,

  Affiliation The Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• David B. Allison

  * E-mail: DAllison@uab.edu

  Affiliations Section on Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Clinical Nutrition Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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