Estimating heritability for cause specific mortality based on twin studies

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 210-233

  Scheike, Thomas H ^a   Holst, Klaus K ^a   Hjelmborg, Jacob B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cause specific hazards; Competing risks; Delayed entry; Heritability; Left truncation; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

BREAST TUMOR; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORTALITY; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SCANDINAVIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TWINS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SCANDINAVIAN AND NORDIC COUNTRIES; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84897056607     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10985-013-9244-x     Document Type: Article

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