An overview of multidisciplinary research resources at the Osaka University Center for Twin Research

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 217-220

  Hayakawa, Kazuo ^a   Iwatani, Yoshinori ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

epigenetics; twin biobank; Twin Research Center

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; BONE DENSITY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DENTISTRY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; JAPAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCIENCE; TWIN ZYGOSITY; TWINS; VISCOELASTICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGISTRIES; TWINS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84873922281     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/thg.2012.141     Document Type: Article

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