Heritability of self-reported asthma and allergy: A study in adult Dutch twins, siblings and parents

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 132-142

  Willemsen, Gonneke ^a   Van Beijsterveldt, Toos C E M ^a   Van Baal, Caroline G C M ^b   Postma, Dirkje ^c   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PARENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ADULT; ASTHMA; DISEASES IN TWINS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PARENTS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SIBLINGS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 41949100546     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.11.2.132     Document Type: Article

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