A genome wide linkage scan for dizygotic twinning in 525 families of mothers of dizygotic twins

Human Reproduction

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1569-1580

  Painter, Jodie N ^a   Willemsen, Gonneke ^b   Nyholt, Dale ^a   Hoekstra, Chantal ^b   Duffy, David L ^a   Henders, Anjali K ^a   Wallace, Leanne ^a   Healey, Sue ^a   Cannon Albright, Lisa A ^c   Skolnick, Mark ^c   Martin, Nicholas G ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^b   Montgomery, Grant W ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dizygotic twinning; Linkage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; BIRTH; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 6; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHER; NETHERLANDS; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE;

EID: 77952822491     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deq084     Document Type: Article

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