Heritability of death from coronary heart disease: A 36-year follow-up of 20 966 Swedish twins

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 252, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 247-254

  Zdravkovic, S ^a   Wienke, A ^b   Pedersen, N L ^a   Marenberg, M E ^c   Yashin, A I ^b   De Faire, U ^a,d  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Concordance; Coronary heart disease; Frailty; Heritability; Twins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN; TWINS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; REGISTRIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SWEDEN; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0036378360     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2796.2002.01029.x     Document Type: Article

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