Heritability of Adult Body Height: A Comparative Study of Twin Cohorts in Eight Countries

Twin Research

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 399-408

  Silventoinen, Karri ^a   Sammalisto, Sampo ^b   Perola, Markus ^b   Boomsma, Dorret I ^e   Cornes, Belinda K ^c   Davis, Chayna ^g   Dunkel, Leo ^a   De Lange, Marlies ^h   Harris, Jennifer R ^f   Hjelmborg, Jacob V B ^d   Luciano, Michelle ^c   Martin, Nicholas G ^c   Mortensen, Jakob ^d   Nisticò, Lorenza ⁱ   Pedersen, Nancy L ^g   Skytthe, Axel ^d   Spector, Tim D ^h   Stazi, Maria Antonietta ⁱ   Willemsen, Gonneke ^e   Kaprio, Jaakko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^g KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^h ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TWIN ZYGOSITY; TWINS;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BODY HEIGHT; DENMARK; FEMALE; FINLAND; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; NETHERLANDS; NORWAY; SWEDEN;

EID: 9144254700     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/136905203770326402     Document Type: Review

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