Heritability of longitudinal changes in coronary-heart-disease risk factors in Women Twins

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1502-1512

  Friedlander, Yechiel ^a,f   Austin, Melissa A ^b   Newman, Beth ^d   Edwards, Karen ^b   Mayer Davis, Elizabeth J ^e   King, Mary Claire ^c  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Bowman Gray School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TWINS;

EID: 0030971053     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515462     Document Type: Article

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