Heritability of recurrent tonsillitis

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 383-387

  Kvestad, Ellen ^a   Kværner, Kari Jorunn ^b   Røysamb, Espen ^a   Tambs, Kristian ^a   Harris, Jennifer Ruth ^a   Magnus, Per ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENDER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORWAY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TONSILLITIS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; NORWAY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONSILLITIS;

EID: 18344373904     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.131.5.383     Document Type: Article

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