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Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2009 Jun 30;33(9):1013–1022. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2009.129

Table 3.

Dam body weight, litter size and average pup weight by parity and genotype. Dams fed breeder chow.

	Parity 1			Parity 2
	Dam Genotype			Dam Genotype
	PREP^WT/WT	PREP^WT/gt	PREP^gt/gt	PREP^WT/WT	PREP^WT/gt	PREP^gt/gt
Number of dams	1	4	6	3	4	10
Dam body wt (g) ¹	21.8	18.1 ± 0.7	19.3 ± 0.3	24.3 ± 0.5	23.9 ± 0.7	24.1 ± 0.7
Litter size	8	8.3 ± 0.5	6.7 ± 0.9	8.7 ± 0.7	6.0 ± 0.7	8.6 ± 0.4
Total number of pups	8	33	47	26	24	86
Average pup weight (g/litter)	1.28	1.28 ± 0.04	1.22 ± 0.02	1.29 ± 0.05	1.34 ±0.03	1.28 ± 0.01

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Two-way ANOVA: effect of parity, p<0.0001. All other p values for table, NS.