• DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0040905
Corpus ID: 17929221

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

@article{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={C. Kuzawa and D. Eisenberg},
  journal={PLoS ONE},
  year={2012},
  volume={7}
}

C. Kuzawa, D. Eisenberg

Published 2012

Medicine, Biology

PLoS ONE

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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