The Swedish Twin Registry in the third millennium.

doi:10.1375/136905202320906219

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The Swedish Twin Registry in the third millennium.

Twin research : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies - 1 Oct 2002

Pedersen Nancy L, Lichtenstein Paul, Svedberg Pia

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Since the Swedish Twin Registry was first established in the late 1950s to study the importance of smoking and alcohol consumption on cancer and cardiovascular diseases, it has been expanded and updated on several occasions. The focus has similarly broadened to most common complex diseases. The content of the database is described, ongoing projects based on the registry are summarized, and we review some of the...

Topics

Alcohol Drinking
Cardiovascular Diseases
Databases, Factual
Diseases in Twins
Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic
Female
Forecasting
Gene Library
Genotype
Humans
Male
Neoplasms
Parkinson Disease
Registries
Smoking
Sweden
Twin Studies as Topic
Twins

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PMID: 12537870
DOI: 10.1375/136905202320906219

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