Heritability of Venous Function in Humans

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 207-211

  Brinsuk, Marina ^a   Tank, Jens ^a   Luft, Friedrich C ^a   Busjahn, Andreas ^a,b   Jordan, Jens ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HealthTwist GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genetics; Plethysmography; Twin study; Venous compliance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; LEG; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; PATH ANALYSIS; PRESSURE VOLUME CURVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SEX; SUPINE POSITION; TWINS; VASCULAR CAPACITY; VEIN; VEIN COMPLIANCE; VEIN DISEASE; VEIN FUNCTION; VENOUS PRESSURE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VEINS;

EID: 0347122980     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000107080.48969.64     Document Type: Article

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