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Genetic and environmental influences on the relation between parental social class and mortality.
International journal of epidemiology - 1 Oct 2006
Osler Merete, Petersen Liselotte, Prescott Eva, Teasdale Thomas W, Sørensen Thorkild I A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Genetic and maternal prenatal environmental factors as well as the post-natal rearing environment may contribute to the association between childhood socioeconomic circumstances and later mortality. In order to disentangle these influences, we studied all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a cohort of adoptees, in whom we estimated the effects of their biological and adoptive fathers' social...
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