Article
Heritability of scoliosis.
European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society - 1 Jun 2012
Grauers Anna, Rahman Iffat, Gerdhem Paul
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To estimate the heritability of scoliosis in the Swedish Twin Registry. METHODS: Self-reported data on scoliosis from 64,578 twins in the Swedish Twin Registry were analysed. Prevalence, pair- and probandwise concordances and tetrachoric correlations in mono- and dizygotic same-sex twins were calculated. The relative importance of genetic variance, i.e. the heritability, and unique and shared...
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