The Tokyo Twin Cohort Project: Overview and initial findings

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 817-826

  Ando, Juko ^a   Nonaka, Koichi ^b   Ozaki, Koken ^c   Sato, Naho ^c   Fujisawa, Keiko K ^d   Suzuki, Kunitake ^e   Yamagata, Shinji ^d   Takahashi, Yusuke ^d   Nakajima, Ryoko ^a   Kato, Noriko ^f   Ooki, Syuichi ^g  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WAKO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^g ISHIKAWA PREFECTURAL NURSING UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD GROWTH; COST CONTROL; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; HUMAN; JAPAN; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; REVIEW; TWIN ZYGOSITY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PILOT PROJECTS; REGISTRIES; TOKYO; TWIN STUDIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 33846226397     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/183242706779462480     Document Type: Review

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