Intergenerational Predictors of Birth Weight in the Philippines: Correlations with Mother’s and Father’s Birth Weight and Test of Maternal Constraint

@inproceedings{Kuzawa2012IntergenerationalPO,
  title={Intergenerational Predictors of Birth Weight in the Philippines: Correlations with Mother’s and Father’s Birth Weight and Test of Maternal Constraint},
  author={Christopher W Kuzawa and Dan T A Eisenberg},
  booktitle={PloS one},
  year={2012}
}

• Christopher W Kuzawa, Dan T A Eisenberg
• Published 2012 in PloS one
• DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0040905

BACKGROUND Birth weight (BW) predicts many health outcomes, but the relative contributions of genes and environmental factors to BW remain uncertain. Some studies report stronger mother-offspring than father-offspring BW correlations, with attenuated father-offspring BW correlations when the mother is stunted. These findings have been interpreted as evidence that maternal genetic or environmental factors play an important role in determining birth size, with small maternal size constraining… CONTINUE READING

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