The USC adult twin cohorts: International Twin Study and California Twin Program

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 366-370

  Cozen, Wendy ^a,b   Hwang, Amie E ^a   Cockburn, Myles G ^a,b   Hamilton, Ann S ^a,b   Zadnick, John ^a   MacK, Thomas M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California Twin Program; cancer; chronic disease; etiology; international twin study; twins

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA METHYLATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MELANOMA; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEOPLASM; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; SMOKING; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TWINS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873885500     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/thg.2012.134     Document Type: Article

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