Heritability of ambulatory heart rate variability

Circulation

Volumn 110, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 2792-2796

  Kupper, Nina H M ^a,c   Willemsen, Gonneke ^a   Van Den Berg, Mireille ^b   De Boer, Dolf ^a   Posthuma, Daniëlle ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a   De Geus, Eco J C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genetics; Heart rate; Nervous system, autonomic

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEART DEATH; HEART DISEASE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RR INTERVAL; TWINS;

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; SIBLINGS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 8144227767     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000146334.96820.6E     Document Type: Article

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