Estimation of variance components for age at menarche in twin families

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 668-677

  Anderson, Carl A ^a,b,c   Duffy, David L ^a   Martin, Nicholas G ^a   Visscher, Peter M ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age at menarche; Censoring; Frailty model; Survival analysis; Twin families; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CENSORSHIP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; MENARCHE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; SCHOOL CHILD; STANDARD; SURVIVAL; TWINS; VARIANCE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MENARCHE; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR FAMILY; SIBLINGS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 35148856109     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-007-9163-2     Document Type: Article

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