A study of association between common variation in the growth hormone-chorionic somatomammotropin hormone gene cluster and adult fasting insulin in a UK Caucasian population

Table 2 Clinical characteristics of subjects

	Exeter Family Study Subjects
	Fathers	Mothers	Children
n	483	479	434
Male (%)	-	-	51.6
Birth weight for children born >36 weeks gestation (g)	-	-	3500 (3175–3780)
Weight at 1 year (g)	-	-	9854 (9146–10730)^‡
Age (years)	33 (29–36)	31 (27–34)	-
BMI (kg/m²)	26.2 (24.0–28.7)	23.1 (21.2–25.4)*	-
Height (cm)	178.0 (173.5–182.4)	164.9 (160.7–169.2)	-
Reported birth weight (g)	3402 (3005–3770)	3289 (3005–3629)	-
Fasting blood glucose (mmol/l)	4.7 (4.4–5.0)	4.3 (4.1–4.6)^†	-
Fasting insulin (pmol/l)	49.0 (37.0–78.1)	59.2 (43.4–85.0)^†	-

Continuous data are given as median (interquartile range). Subjects successfully genotyped for the CSH1.01 microsatellite are included.
*Pre-pregnancy BMI.
^†Measurements taken at 28 weeks gestation.
^‡Data on weight at 1 year were available for 366 children.

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