A comparison of anthropometric, metabolic, and reproductive characteristics of young adult women from opposite-sex and same-sex twin pairs

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Korsoff, Pirkko ^a   Bogl, Leonie H ^b   Korhonen, Päivi ^c   Kangas, Antti J ^d   Soininen, Pasi ^d,e   Ala Korpela, Mika ^d,e,f,g   Rose, Richard J ^h   Kaaja, Risto ^c   Kaprio, Jaakko ^b,i  

^a SATAKUNTA CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^f OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^h INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Anthropometrics; Lipoprotein profile; Opposite sex twin pairs; Prenatal androgen exposure; Reproductive history; Twin testosterone transfer hypothesis

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; INTERMEDIATE DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ANDROGEN METABOLISM; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFERTILITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OBESITY; OPPOSITE SEX TWIN PAIR; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCTION; SAME SEX TWIN PAIR; TWIN PREGNANCY;

EID: 84901046480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2014.00028     Document Type: Article

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