Editor's Choice - High Heritability of Liability to Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: A Population Based Twin Study

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 41-46

  Joergensen, T M M ^a,b   Christensen, K ^c   Lindholt, J S ^d   Larsen, L A ^c   Green, A ^e   Houlind, K ^a,b  

^a KOLDING HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Institute of Regional Health Services Research   (Denmark)

^c Danish Twin Registry   (Denmark)

^d Dept of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery   (Denmark)

^e Odense Patient Data Explorative Network (OPEN)   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Heritability; Twin study

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DENMARK; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; FIRST DEGREE RELATIVE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TWIN CONCORDANCE; TWINS; ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; REGISTER;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; DENMARK; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; REGISTRIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84963963338     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2016.03.012     Document Type: Article

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