To cause or not to cause? That is the question, but identical twins might not have all of the answers

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue , 2015, Pages 198-200

  Boardman, Jason D ^a   Fletcher, Jason M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal estimates; Health and education; Identical twins

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NOTE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROVOCATION; SIBLING; SOCIOLOGY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEALTH DISPARITY; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; STANDARDS; TWINS;

CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOTYPE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84922285127     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.013     Document Type: Note

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