A population-based study of graves' disease in danish twins

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 397-400

  Brix, Thomas Heiberg ^a   Christensen, Kaare ^b   Holm, Niels V ^b   Harvald, Bent ^b   Hegedüs, Laszlo ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DENMARK; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GRAVES DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TWIN ZYGOSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0031834892     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00450.x     Document Type: Article

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