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The Heritability of CHD Mortality in Danish Twins After Controlling for Smoking and BMI

The Heritability of CHD Mortality in Danish Twins After Controlling for Smoking and BMI

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The Heritability of CHD Mortality in Danish Twins After Controlling for Smoking and BMI

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Full title

The Heritability of CHD Mortality in Danish Twins After Controlling for Smoking and BMI

Publisher

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Journal title

Twin research and human genetics, 2005-02, Vol.8 (1), p.53-59

Language

English

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Publisher

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

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Scope and Contents

Contents

Cause-specific mortality data on Danish monozygotic and dizygotic twins are used to analyze heritability estimates of susceptibility to coronary heart disease (CHD) after controlling for smoking and Body Mass Index (BMI). The sample includes 1209 like-sexed twin pairs born between 1890 and 1920, where both individuals were still alive in 1966. The...

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Full title

The Heritability of CHD Mortality in Danish Twins After Controlling for Smoking and BMI

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_67753577

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_67753577

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ISSN

1832-4274

E-ISSN

1839-2628

DOI

10.1375/twin.8.1.53

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