TY - JOUR
T1 - Project Grow-2-Gether
T2 - A study of the genetic and environmental influences on child eating and obesity
AU - Faith, Myles S.
AU - Keller, Kathleen L.
AU - Matz, Patty
AU - Johnson, Susan L.
AU - Lewis, Rebecca
AU - Jorge, Marie Alexandra
AU - Ridley, Clare
AU - Han, Helen
AU - Must, Shoshanna
AU - Heo, Moonseong
AU - Pietrobelli, Angelo
AU - Heymsfield, Steven B.
AU - Allison, David B.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by NIH grant K08MH01530. We express great appreciation to the many families who generously gave their time to participate in Project Grow-2-Gether.
PY - 2002/10/1
Y1 - 2002/10/1
N2 - "Project Grow-2-Gether" is a child nutrition study of same-sex, 3- to 7-year-old monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs. The study attempts to bridge two bodies of literature that have rarely interfaced with respect to obesity and ingestive behavior: the first being behavioral genetic approaches to obesity-related traits, and the second being developmental approaches focusing on parent-child relationships. The overarching aim of Project Grow-2-Gether is to disentangle genetic from potential home-environmental influences on child eating behavior and body fat. This paper reviews the rationale for Project Grow-2-Gether, its procedures, and core phenotypic measurement battery. A focus of the study is acquisition of controlled food intake measurements obtained in the laboratory, measurement of specific home environmental variables, and multi-method evaluation of parent-child feeding relations. Future directions may involve longitudinal assessment of child growth and molecular analyses for specific genes that influence child eating behavior.
AB - "Project Grow-2-Gether" is a child nutrition study of same-sex, 3- to 7-year-old monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs. The study attempts to bridge two bodies of literature that have rarely interfaced with respect to obesity and ingestive behavior: the first being behavioral genetic approaches to obesity-related traits, and the second being developmental approaches focusing on parent-child relationships. The overarching aim of Project Grow-2-Gether is to disentangle genetic from potential home-environmental influences on child eating behavior and body fat. This paper reviews the rationale for Project Grow-2-Gether, its procedures, and core phenotypic measurement battery. A focus of the study is acquisition of controlled food intake measurements obtained in the laboratory, measurement of specific home environmental variables, and multi-method evaluation of parent-child feeding relations. Future directions may involve longitudinal assessment of child growth and molecular analyses for specific genes that influence child eating behavior.
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U2 - 10.1375/136905202320906309
DO - 10.1375/136905202320906309
M3 - Article
C2 - 12537879
AN - SCOPUS:18744366326
SN - 1369-0523
VL - 5
SP - 472
EP - 475
JO - Twin Research
JF - Twin Research
IS - 5
ER -