The Georgia Cardiovascular Twin Study: Influence of genetic predisposition and chronic stress on risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 965-970

  Ge, Dongliang ^a   Dong, Yanbin ^a   Wang, Xiaoling ^a   Treiber, Frank A ^a   Snieder, Harold ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEART RATE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TWINS; UNITED STATES; ZYGOSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISEASES IN TWINS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GEORGIA; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RISK FACTORS; STRESS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 33846211792     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/183242706779462877     Document Type: Review

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