Validation of a telephone zygosity questionnaire in twins of known zygosity

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 159-163

  Peeters, Hilde ^a   Van Gestel, Sofie ^a   Vlietinck, Robert ^a   Derom, Catherine ^a   Derom, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Similarity; Telephone questionnaire; Twins; Zygosity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CHORION VILLUS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; FETUS MEMBRANE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; TELEPHONE; TWIN ZYGOSITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELEPHONE; TWIN STUDIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0031838279     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021416112215     Document Type: Article

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