The Florida State Twin Registry: Research aims and design

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 958-962

  Taylor, Jeanette E ^a   James, Lisa M ^a   Reeves, Mark D ^a   Bobadilla, Leonardo ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NARCISSISM; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SELF REPORT; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TWINS; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; FLORIDA; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PILOT PROJECTS; REGISTRIES; TWIN STUDIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 33846225535     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/183242706779462525     Document Type: Article

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