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Project Grow-2-Gether: A Study of the Genetic and Environmental Influences on Child Eating and Obesity

Year: 2002
Type: article
Study design: Study Protocol
Abstract: "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.
DOI: 10.1375/136905202320906309
Authors: Myles S. Faith, Kathleen L. Keller, Patty Matz, Susan L. Johnson, Rebecca Lewis, Marie Alexandra Jorge, Clare Ridley, Helen Han, Shoshanna Must, Moonseong Heo, Angelo Pietrobelli, Steven B. Heymsfield, David B. Allison
Institutions: University of Pennsylvania, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University, Cornell University, Weill Cornell Medicine, University of Colorado Health, University of Colorado Anschutz, University of Colorado Denver, University of Verona, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2122788360
FWCI: 1.041
Cites: 30
Cited by: 13
Related to: 10