Genetic susceptibility to death from coronary heart disease in a study of twins

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 330, Issue 15, 1994, Pages 1041-1046

  Marenberg, Marjorie E ^a   Risch, Neil ^a   Berkman, Lisa F ^a   Floderus, Birgitta ^b   de Faire, Ulf ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFE TABLE; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TWINS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY DISEASE; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0028330005     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199404143301503     Document Type: Article

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