The Swedish twin registry in the third millennium

Twin Research

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 427-432

  Pedersen, Nancy L ^a,b   Lichtenstein, Paul ^a   Svedberg, Pia ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SMOKING; SWEDEN; TWINS;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASES IN TWINS; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GENE LIBRARY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PARKINSON DISEASE; REGISTRIES; SMOKING; SWEDEN; TWIN STUDIES; TWINS;

EID: 0036807382     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/136905202320906219     Document Type: Article

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