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Increase in the heritability of asthma from 1994 to 2003 among adolescent twins.
Respiratory medicine - 1 Aug 2011
Thomsen Simon Francis, van der Sluis Sophie, Kyvik Kirsten Ohm, Skytthe Axel, Skadhauge Lars Rauff, Backer Vibeke
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BACKGROUND: Over the past decades the prevalence of asthma has increased in most parts of the world, and widespread changes in lifestyle and environment have been postulated as the primary cause for this. We examined whether the extent to which genetic and environmental factors influence susceptibility to asthma has changed between 1994 and 2003. METHODS: Two different cohorts of twins (n = 3393 and n = 2813...
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