The Qingdao Twin Registry: A focus on chronic disease research

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 758-762

  Pang, Zengchang ^a   Ning, Feng ^b   Unger, Jennifer ^c,f   Johnson, C Anderson ^c   Wang, Shaojie ^a   Guo, Qian ^c   Cao, Weihua ^d   Lee, Liming ^e  

^a Qingdao Municipal Center for Disease Control Preventation   (China)

^b QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^e PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; TWINS;

ADULT; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REGISTRIES; TWIN STUDIES;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 33846232186     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/183242706779462859     Document Type: Article

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