No paternal effect on monozygotic twinning in the Swedish Twin Registry

Twin Research

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 212-215

  Lichtenstein, Paul ^a   Källén, Bengt ^b   Köster, Max ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUND   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Genetics; Monozygotic twins; Multiple pregnancy; Paternal inheritance; Risk estimate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FATHER; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOTHER; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; REGISTER; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SWEDEN; TWINS;

COHORT STUDIES; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHERS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0032234089     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.1.4.212     Document Type: Article

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