Heritability of death from respiratory diseases: An analysis of Danish twin survival data using a correlated frailty model

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 77, Issue , 2000, Pages 407-411

  Wienke, Andreas ^a   Christensen, Kaare ^b   Holm, Niels V ^b   Yashin, Anatoli I ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAILTY MODELS; SURVIVAL DATA;

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENMARK; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORTALITY; REGISTER; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TWINS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0034569384     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-921-9-407     Document Type: Conference Paper

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