Cohort profile: Swedish Twin Study on Prediction and Prevention of Asthma (STOPPA)

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 273-280

  Almqvist, Catarina ^a,b   Örtqvist, Anne K ^a   Ullemar, Vilhelmina ^a   Lundholm, Cecilia ^a   Lichtenstein, Paul ^a   Magnusson, Patrik K E ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

allergic disease; asthma; concordance; discordance; epidemiology; epigenetic; genetic; lung function; twin

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; NITRIC OXIDE; DNA; ICOSANOID;

ADOLESCENT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SPIROMETRY; SWEDEN; WHEEZING; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ALGORITHM; BLOOD; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BREATH ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES; FOLLOW UP; GENETICS; LIFESTYLE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PARENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBERTY; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SALIVA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TWINS; URINE;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; ASTHMA; BREATH TESTS; CHILD; DISEASES IN TWINS; DNA; EICOSANOIDS; FECES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MICROBIOTA; NITRIC OXIDE; PARENTS; PUBERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RISK FACTORS; SALIVA; SPIROMETRY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84929956191     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: 18392628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/thg.2015.17     Document Type: Article

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