Age at first sexual intercourse and teenage pregnancy in Australian female twins

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 440-449

  Waldron, Mary ^a   Heath, Andrew C ^a   Turkheimer, Eric ^b   Emery, Robert ^b   Bucholz, Kathleen K ^a   Madden, Pamela A F ^a   Martin, Nicholas G ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ZYGOSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; COHORT STUDIES; COITUS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 34250846554     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.10.3.440     Document Type: Article

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