Obesity Abstracts

Background: The associations between early life factors and obesity in later life may be mediated through epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA methylation. Infancy rapid weight gain (RWG) is one early life factor that has been consistently associated with increased risk of obesity in childhood. We investigated if early life rapid weight gain (+0.67SD change in weight for age z-score from birth to 1 year), was associated with variation in DNA methylation in childhood and adulthood...