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Environmental Influences on Children's Physical Activity: Quantitative Estimates Using a Twin Design

BACKGROUND: Twin studies offer a ‘natural experiment’ that can estimate the magnitude of environmental and genetic effects on a target phenotype. We hypothesised that fidgetiness and enjoyment of activity would be heritable but that objectively-measured daily activity would show a strong shared envi...

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Autores principales: Fisher, Abigail, van Jaarsveld, Cornelia H. M., Llewellyn, Clare H., Wardle, Jane
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2858042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20422046
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010110