The continuing value of twin studies in the omics era

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 640-653

  Van Dongen, Jenny ^a   Slagboom, P Eline ^b   Draisma, Harmen H M ^a   Martin, Nicholas G ^c   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MICRORNA;

DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; METABOLOMICS; MICROBIOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEUROIMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REVIEW; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; METABOLOMICS; PROTEOMICS; REGISTRIES; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84865214259     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3243     Document Type: Review

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