Cohort profile: Twinsuk and healthy ageing twin study

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 76-85

  Moayyeri, Alireza ^a   Hammond, Christopher J ^a   Valdes, Ana M ^a   Spector, Timothy D ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; LIPID; URIC ACID;

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; AGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; METABOLISM; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BONE DENSITY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNDING; GENDER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; GRIP STRENGTH; HEALTH STATUS; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIP; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MENARCHE; METABOLOMICS; MYOPIA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIMARY GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ZYGOSITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; DISEASES IN TWINS; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84875631900     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyr207     Document Type: Article

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