The Genetic and Environmental Bases of Complex Human-Disease: Extending the Utility of Twin-Studies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Goodin, Douglas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA DRB1 ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRB1 GENE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HAZARD RATIO; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TWIN CONCORDANCE; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

ALLELES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NORTH AMERICA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE; RISK; SEX FACTORS; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84871281142     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047875     Document Type: Article

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