VETSA: The vietnam era twin study of aging

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 399-402

  Kremen, William S ^a,c   Franz, Carol E ^a   Lyons, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; cognition; heritability; longitudinal; twins

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TWINS; VIET NAM;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CALIFORNIA; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VIETNAM CONFLICT;

EID: 84873921315     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/thg.2012.86     Document Type: Article

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