Differences in smoking habits of MZ and DZ twins: A commentary on Tishler and Carey

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 718-720

  Kaprio, Jaakko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING HABIT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; SMOKING; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 35349007376     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.10.5.718     Document Type: Article

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