ArticleBehavior genetics2023
Nonlinear Catch-Up Growth in Height, Weight, and Head Circumference from Birth to Adolescence: A Longitudinal Twin Study.
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- Early Infancy Weight Gain Patterns Are Associated with Child Body Mass Index in Singletons but Not Twins.The Journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- A comparative study on infant growth between assisted reproductive technology pregnancy and natural pregnancy.Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica · 2025Article
- Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Child Height in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2025Article
- Association Between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index and Growth Delay in Korean Children Aged 18-36 Months: A Population-Based Study.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Article
- Addressing Stunting in Children Under Five: Insights and Opportunities from Nepal, Bangladesh, and Vietnam-A Review of Literature.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Early childhood weight trajectory differences in twins, singletons, and gestational-age matched singletons.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- Co-recovery of physical size and cognitive ability from infancy to adolescence: A twin study.Child developmentArticle
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Owing to high rates of prenatal complications, twins are, on average, substantially smaller than population norms on physical measurements including height, weight, and head circumference at birth. By early childhood, twins are physically average. This study is the first to explore the process of catch-up growth by fitting asymptotic growth models to age-standardized height, weight, and head circumference measurements in a community sample of twins (n = 1281, 52.3% female) followed at up to 17 time points from birth to 15 years. Catch-up growth was rapid over the first year and plateaued around the population mean by early childhood. Shared environmental factors accounted for the majority of individual differences in initial physical size (57.7-65.5%), whereas additive genetic factors accounted for the majority of individual differences in the upper asymptotes of height, weight, and head circumference (73.4-92.6%). Both additive genetic and shared environmental factors were associated with variance in how quickly twins caught up. Gestational age and family SES emerged as important environmental correlates of physical catch-up growth.
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