Abstract:
:We report analyses of data on body fat from a cohort of 34 separated monozygotic twin pairs (MZA) and a matched sample of 38 pairs of monozygotic twins reared together (MZT) originally studied by James Shields. The correlation for MZA pairs was .61 and the correlation for MZT pairs was .75. These correlations did not differ significantly, nor did correlations differ between MZA pairs subclassified as having been raised in relatively more or less similar environments. Our results suggest important roles for both genes and environment in the accumulation of body fat and support other adoption studies in suggesting that adult environments rather than rearing environments are the most important nongenetic determinants of levels of body fat in adults.
journal_name
Behav Genetjournal_title
Behavior geneticsauthors
Price RA,Gottesman IIdoi
10.1007/BF01067662subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1991-01-01 00:00:00pages
1-7issue
1eissn
0001-8244issn
1573-3297journal_volume
21pub_type
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