Twin study of heritability of eating bread in Danish and Finnish men and women

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 163-167

  Hasselbalch, Ann Louise ^a   Silventoinen, Karri ^b   Keskitalo, Kaisu ^b,c   Pietiläinen, Kirsi H ^b,d   Rissanen, Aila ^b,d   Heitmann, Berit L ^a   Kyvik, Kirsten O ^e   Sørensen, Thorkild I A ^a   Kaprio, Jaakko ^b,c  

^a Centre for Health and Society   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bread; Genes; Rye; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENMARK; EATING HABIT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RYE; SELF REPORT; TWINS;

ADULT; AGED; BREAD; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOOD HABITS; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

SECALE CEREALE;

EID: 77953788893     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.13.2.163     Document Type: Article

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