Heritability and seasonal variability of vitamin D concentrations in male twins

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1393-1398

  Karohl, Cristina ^a,c   Su, Shaoyong ^b   Kumari, Meena ^a   Tangpricha, Vin ^a   Veledar, Emir ^a   Vaccarino, Viola ^b   Raggi, Paolo ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TWINS; VIET NAM; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; WINTER;

HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEASONS; SUNLIGHT; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 78651313364     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2010.30176     Document Type: Article

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