Utilizing twins concordance rates to infer the predisposition to myasthenia gravis

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 129-136

  Ramanujam, Ryan ^a   Pirskanen, Ritva ^a   Ramanujam, S ^b   Hammarström, Lennart ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Complex disease; Genetics; Mathematical modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FAMILY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MUTATION; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWINS;

DISEASES IN TWINS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 79953120070     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.14.2.129     Document Type: Article

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