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Estimating heritability for cause specific mortality based on twin studies.
Lifetime data analysis - 1 Apr 2014
Scheike Thomas H, Holst Klaus K, Hjelmborg Jacob B
Abstract excerpt
There has been considerable interest in studying the magnitude and type of inheritance of specific diseases. This is typically derived from family or twin studies, where the basic idea is to compare the correlation for different pairs that share different amount of genes. We here consider data from the Danish twin registry and discuss how to define heritability for cancer occurrence. The key point is that this...
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