HLA haplotypes in dizygotic twin pairs: Are dizygotic twins more similar than sibs?

Twin Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 287-288

  Titlestad, Ingrid Louise ^a   Kyvik, Kirsten Ohm ^a   Kristensen, Tom ^b   Lillevang, Søren ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HLA ANTIGENS; HLA-A ANTIGENS; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HLA-C ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC;

EID: 0036686203     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/13690520260186470     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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3. An MHC (HLA-A, -B, C2, BF, HLA-DR, GLO1) haplotype study of 497 Danish normal families with 190 children including 97 twin pairs
4. A search for stratification-free association between plasma lipids and HLA using dizygotic twins