Heritability of eleven metabolic phenotypes in Danish and Chinese twins: A cross-population comparison

Obesity

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1908-1914

  Li, Shuxia ^a   Duan, Hongmei ^b   Pang, Zengchang ^c   Zhang, Dongfeng ^d   Duan, Haiping ^c   Hjelmborg, Jacob V B ^a   Tan, Qihua ^a,e   Kruse, Torben A ^a,e   Kyvik, Kirsten O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b KOLDING HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c Qingdao Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^d QINGDAO UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^e ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHINESE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DANISH; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC REGULATION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HERITABILITY; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; TWINS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CHINA; CULTURE; DENMARK; DISEASES IN TWINS; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884902335     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oby.20217     Document Type: Article

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