Birth cohorts: A resource for life course studies

Family matters: Designing, analysing and understanding family based studies in life course epidemiology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Andersen, Anne Marie Nybo ^a   Madsen, Mia ^a   Lawlor, Debbie A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth cohorts; Data collection; Family studies; Genetic epidemiology; Intergenerational studies; Life course epidemiology; Research ethics; Sibling studies; Study design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922760768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231034.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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