The swedish twin registry: Establishment of a biobank and other recent developments

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 317-329

  Magnusson, Patrik K E ^a   Almqvist, Catarina ^a,b   Rahman, Iffat ^a   Ganna, Andrea ^a   Viktorin, Alexander ^a   Walum, Hasse ^a   Halldner, Linda ^a   Lundström, Sebastian ^c,d   Ullén, Fredrik ^a   Långström, Niklas ^a,d   Larsson, Henrik ^a   Nyman, Anastasia ^a   Gumpert, Clara Hellner ^a   Råstam, Maria ^e   Anckarsäter, Henrik ^c   Cnattingius, Sven ^a   Johannesson, Magnus ^b,f   Ingelsson, Erik ^a   Klareskog, Lars ^a   De Faire, Ulf ^a   Pedersen, Nancy L ^a   Lichtenstein, Paul ^a   more..

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d Swedish Prison and Probation Service   (Sweden)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

biobank; population based; registry; Sweden; twin

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BIRTH; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEDEN; TWIN ZYGOSITY; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; REGISTRIES; SWEDEN; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873917050     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/thg.2012.104     Document Type: Article

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