Risk for multiple sclerosis in dizygotic and monozygotic twins

Multiple Sclerosis

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 500-503

  Hansen, Thomas ^a,b   Skytthe, Axel ^c   Stenager, Egon ^b,d   Petersen, Hans Christian ^e   Kyvik, Kirsten Ohm ^c   Brønnum Hansen, Henrik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c The Danish Twin Registry ^*  (Denmark)

^d Neurologisk Afdeling   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Multiple sclerosis; Twin study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENMARK; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPROTECTION; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 25844499193     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1352458505ms1202oa     Document Type: Article

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