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Genome-wide linkage scan for exercise participation in Dutch sibling pairs.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Dec 2007
De Moor Marleen H M, Posthuma Danielle, Hottenga Jouke-Jan, Willemsen Gonneke, Boomsma Dorret I, De Geus Eco J C
Abstract excerpt
This study was aimed at identifying the genomic loci linked to exercise participation in males and females. Cross-sectional exercise data of twins and siblings (18-50 years) were used from the Netherlands Twin Registry. The sample consisted of 1432 genotyped sibling pairs from 622 families (1120 sibling pairs were genotyped on all chromosomes). Exercise participation (no/yes, based on a cutoff criterion of four...
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