Sri Lankan twin registry

Twin Research

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 424-426

  Sumathipala, Athula ^a   Siribaddana, Sisira ^b   De Silva, Nimali ^c   Fernando, Devaka ^c   Abeysingha, Nihal ^c   Dayaratne, Rohana ^d   De Silva, Deepthi ^e   Warnasuriya, Narada ^c   Hotopf, Mathew ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SRI JAYEWARDENEPURA   (Sri Lanka)

^d General Hospital   (Sri Lanka)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; SRI LANKA; TWIN ZYGOSITY; TWINS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOLUNTEER;

BIRTH CERTIFICATES; COHORT STUDIES; DEATH CERTIFICATES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; SRI LANKA; TWIN STUDIES; TWINS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036807302     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/136905202320906200     Document Type: Article

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