Representativeness of a roster of volunteer North American twins with chronic disease

Twin Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-42

  Mack, Thomas M ^a,b   Deapen, Dennis ^a   Hamilton, Ann S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer; Concordance; Epidemiology; Familiarity; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHRONIC DISEASE; EDUCATION; GENDER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWINS; ZYGOSITY;

EID: 0034069088     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.3.1.33     Document Type: Article

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