The Vietnam era twin registry

Twin Research

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 476-481

  Goldberg, Jack ^a,b   Curran, Birute ^a   Vitek, Mary Ellen ^c   Henderson, William G ^c   Boyko, Edward J ^a,b,d  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMY; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; TWINS; WAR;

DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASES IN TWINS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; TWIN STUDIES; TWINS; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; VIETNAM; WAR;

EID: 0036807196     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/136905202320906318     Document Type: Article

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