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Familiarity and heritability of binge eating disorder: results of a case-control family study and a twin study

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A study exploring the contribution of genetic factors in aggregating binge eating disorder (BED) in families is presented. Data from a case-control family study of BED conducted in the Boston area was compared to the population-based study of Norwegian twins providing strong evidence that BED aggregates in families and additive genetic effects are responsible.

Health aspects, Surveys, Overweight persons, Heritability

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Undue influence of weight on self-evaluation: a population-based twin study of gender differences

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The extent to which the genetics and environment factors contribute to liability to placing undue importance on weight and to determine the differences exist across genders, in the influence of weight gain is explored. The results of the study made showed that individual variation played an undue influence of weight.

Science & research, Research, Causes of, Weight gain, Body weight

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Genetic and environmental influences on binge eating in the absence of compensatory behaviors: A population based twin study

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The impact of genetic and environmental factors affecting binge eating is explained. For this purpose, a questionnaire conducted on 8045 same-sex and opposite-sex twins from Norway is described.

Case studies, Environmental aspects, Twins

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