How heritable is individual susceptibility to death? the results of an analysis of survival data on Danish, Swedish and Finnish twins

Twin Research

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 196-205

  Iachine, Ivan A ^a   Holm, Niels V ^a   Harris, Jennifer R ^b,c   Begun, Alexander Z ^d   Iachina, Maria K ^a   Laitinen, Markku ^e   Kaprio, Jaakko ^f   Yashin, Anatoli I ^d,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Bivariate model; Frailty; Heritability; Related individuals

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEATH; DENMARK; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FINLAND; FORECASTING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEALTH; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; SWEDEN; TWINS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEATH; DENMARK; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FINLAND; FORECASTING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; TWINS;

EID: 0032242237     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.1.4.196     Document Type: Article

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