HealthTwiSt: The Berlin Twin Registry

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 778-782

  Busjahn, Andreas ^a  

^a HealthTwist GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGISTER; REVIEW; TWIN ZYGOSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; REGISTRIES; TWIN STUDIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 33846236413     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/183242706779462813     Document Type: Review

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