The heritability of cause-specific mortality: A correlated gamma-frailty model applied to mortality due to respiratory diseases in Danish twins born 1870-1930

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 3873-3887

  Wienke, Andreas ^a   Holm, Niels V ^b   Christensen, Kaare ^b   Skytthe, Axel ^b   Vaupel, James W ^a   Yashin, Anatoli I ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Correlated gamma frailty model; Danish twins; Genetic and environmental factors; Respiratory diseases

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DENMARK; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORTALITY; REGISTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; VARIANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0346258215     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1669     Document Type: Article

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