Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Colombo Twin and Singleton Study (CoTASS): a description of a population based twin study of mental disorders in Sri Lanka.

BMC psychiatry - 27 Jun 2008

Siribaddana Sisira H, Ball Harriet A, Hewage Suwin N, Glozier Nick, Kovas Yulia, Dayaratne Dark, Sumathipala Athula, McGuffin Peter, Hotopf Matthew

Abstract excerpt

BACKGROUND: The Sri Lankan twin registry is one of the first to be established in a developing country, and its design has ensured sampling from a wide range of environmental conditions. It thus has great potential to examine environmental and genetic influences on diverse phenotypes, including p...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Diseases in Twins
Share to Environmental Exposure
Share to Mental Disorders

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Population Surveillance

Share to Registries

Share to Socioeconomic Factors

Share to Sri Lanka

Source

Open in PubMed Open full text

Identifiers

PMID: 18588676
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-8-49
PMCID: PMC2475532

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 2 Sept 2026. Prepared record publication-18588676-2026-09-02.2. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-02.2.

Source receipt: PubMed via Helena Literature Corpus, retrieved 2 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Colombo Twin and Singleton Study (CoTASS): a description of a population based twin study of mental disorders in Sri Lanka.PMID 18588676Read ↗

The Colombo Twin and Singleton Follow-up Study: a population based twin study of psychiatric disorders and metabolic syndrome in Sri Lanka.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Sri Lankan Twin Registry.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Protocol for a longitudinal twin birth cohort study to unravel the complex interplay between early-life environmental and genetic risk factors in health and disease: the Chongqing Longitudinal Twin Study (LoTiS).Semantic proximity Read ↗

Environmental exposures and their genetic or environmental contribution to depression and fatigue: a twin study in Sri Lanka.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The Challenges and Opportunities for Mental Health Twin Research in NigeriaSemantic proximity Read ↗

The UK Adult Twin Registry (TwinsUK Resource)Semantic proximity Read ↗

The Swedish Twin Registry: a unique resource for clinical, epidemiological and genetic studies.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genetic and environmental contributions to the overlap between psychological, fatigue and somatic symptoms: a twin study in Sri Lanka.Semantic proximity Read ↗

University of Washington Twin Registry: Poised for the Next Generation of Twin ResearchSemantic proximity Read ↗

Genetic Overlap Between Type 2 Diabetes and Depression in a Sri Lankan Population Twin Sample.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Twin studies of psychiatric illness: an update.Semantic proximity Read ↗

[Twin studies in psychiatry].Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.