An Adoption Study of Human Obesity

Indices of relative weight and obesity

1972 • 1,967 citations

Use of the Danish Adoption Register for the study of obesity and thinness.

1983 • 1,660 citations

The Science and Politics of IQ

1975 • 1,000 citations

The types and prevalence of mental illness in the biological and adoptive families of adopted schizophrenics

1968 • 707 citations

COMPARISON OF SELF-REPORTED AND MEASURED HEIGHT AND WEIGHT

1982 • 654 citations

The accuracy of self-reported weights

1981 • 627 citations

Drinking Problems in Adopted and Nonadopted Sons of Alcoholics

1974 • 514 citations

Childhood Antecedents of Adult Obesity

1976 • 473 citations

THE NHLBI TWIN STUDY OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK FACTORS: METHODOLOGY AND SUMMARY OF RESULTS

1977 • 456 citations

Mental Illness in the Biological and Adoptive Families of Adopted Schizophrenics

1971 • 229 citations

Psychopathy: Heredity and Environment

1972 • 202 citations

Personality resemblance among adolescents and their parents in biologically related and adoptive families.

1981 • 195 citations

Influence of heredity and environment in determination of skinfold thickness in children.

1975 • 161 citations

THE AETIOLOGY OF OBESITY IN CHILDREN A Study of 101 Twin Pairs

1976 • 138 citations

The accuracy of reports of weight: children's recall of their parents' weights 15 years earlier.

1983 • 126 citations

Reliability and validity of self-report and observers' estimates of relative weight

1979 • 98 citations

A new Swedish twin registry containing environmental and medical base line data from about 14,000 same-sexed pairs born 1926-58.

1976 • 91 citations

Comparison of self-reported height and weight with controlled height and weight in women and men.

1981 • 91 citations

Social class correlations among adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents

1979 • 80 citations

GENETIC ASPECTS OF INTELLIGENCE

1975 • 74 citations

Problems in the genetics of human obesity.

1964 • 69 citations

Relative importance of the effect of family environment and heredity on obesity

1977 • 68 citations

Post-War course of the prevalence of extreme overweight among Danish young men

1977 • 64 citations

The relationship between person's relative body weights and the quality and quantity of food stored in their homes

1978 • 62 citations

Effect of parental fatness levels on the fatness of biological and adoptive children

1977 • 55 citations

FAMILIAL AGGREGATION OF BLOOD PRESSURE AND WEIGHT IN ADOPTIVE FAMILIES

1983 • 54 citations

GENETIC FACTORS IN HUMAN OBESITY

1965 • 45 citations

Constant median body mass index of Danish young men, 1943-1977.

1981 • 31 citations

Weight Changes in Adult Twins

1980 • 22 citations

Some aspects of adoption in selected samples of adult adoptees.

1976 • 22 citations