Causal relationship between the timing of menarche and young adult body mass index with consideration to a trend of consistently decreasing age at menarche

• Hakyung Kim,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Genome and Health Big Data Laboratory, Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2450-760X

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• Seung-Ah Choe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Seung-Ah Choe, Soo Ji Lee

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: seungah@korea.ac.kr (SAC); slee53@snu.ac.kr (SJL)

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6270-5020

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• Soo Ji Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Seung-Ah Choe, Soo Ji Lee

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: seungah@korea.ac.kr (SAC); slee53@snu.ac.kr (SJL)

  Affiliations Genome and Health Big Data Laboratory, Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Institute of Health & Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6609-6039

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• Joohon Sung

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genome and Health Big Data Laboratory, Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

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