Fig. 1

BMI distribution at the 12 time points analysed. BMI values in kg⋅m−2 for all samples (discovery and replication) are plotted at each time point. BMI values are uniformly distributed along the x-axis between the tick of the time point and the value of the normalized density of the sex-stratified BMI at this time point, to the left for females (blue) and to the right for males (green). Ribbons and box plots, showing the median and quartiles, are plotted in background and foreground, respectively