Healthy Twin: A Twin-Family study of Korea - Protocols and current status

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 844-848

  Sung, Joohon ^a   Cho, Sung Il ^b   Lee, Kayoung ^c   Ha, Mina ^d   Choi, Eun Young ^d   Choi, Ji Sook ^e   Kim, Ho ^b   Kim, Jihae ^f   Hong, Kyoung Sue ^f   Kim, Yeonju ^g   Yoo, Keun Young ^g   Park, Chan ^h   Song, Yun Mi ^f  

^a Kangwon National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Dankook University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e Samsung Medical Center   (South Korea)

^f Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^g Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^h Korea National Institute of Health   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KOREA; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; TWIN ZYGOSITY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; REGISTRIES; SAMPLE SIZE; TWIN STUDIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 33846193592     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/183242706779462822     Document Type: Article

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