Kids of obese parents more likely to develop obesity due to inheriting related genes (IMAGE)

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Kids of obese parents more likely to develop obesity due to inheriting related genes

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Relationship between mother’s and father’s BMI and offspring BMI by survey sweep estimated by phenotypic linear regression and Mendelian randomization.

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Wright L et al., 2025, PLOS Genetics, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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