The heritability of CHD mortality in Danish twins after controlling for smoking and BMI

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-59

  Wienke, Andreas ^a   Herskind, Anne M ^b   Christensen, Kaare ^c   Skytthe, Axel ^c   Yashin, Anatoli I ^d  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BODY MASS; DENMARK; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TWIN ZYGOSITY;

BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY DISEASE; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SMOKING;

EID: 16444371114     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/1832427053435328     Document Type: Article

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