HealthTwist: The berlin twin registry for health research

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 163-166

  Busjahn, Andreas ^a  

^a HealthTwist GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

cardiovascular; DNA; health research; metabolic; nutraceuticals; twins

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBIGUOUS GENITALIA; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHILD; DISEASE REGISTRY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NUTRITION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SCHOOL CHILD; SCIENCE; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BERLIN; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; REGISTRIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873890353     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/thg.2012.95     Document Type: Article

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