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Concordance Rates of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis in a Danish Twin Population.
Spine - 1 Oct 2016
Simony Ane, Carreon Leah Y, H Jmark Karen, Kyvik Kirsten O, Andersen Mikkel Ø
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STUDY DESIGN: Clinical, radiological, and genetic determination of zygosity of twin pairs from the Danish Twin Registry who self-reported having adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). OBJECTIVE: To establish concordance rates of AIS. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: The etiology of and the true mode of inheritance of AIS remain unclear. Studies on concordance in twin pairs provide a basis for analyzing the influence...
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