Half of the variation in susceptibility to mortality is genetic: Findings from Swedish twin survival data

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-19

  Yashin, Anatoli I ^a,b   Iachine, Ivan A ^c   Harris, Jennifer R ^d,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Correlated frailty; Danish twins; Heritability; Liability; Survival models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN; TWINS;

COHORT STUDIES; DEATH; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033029649     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021481620934     Document Type: Article

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