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The Swedish Twin Registry: Content and Management as a Research Infrastructure.
Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies - 1 Dec 2019
Zagai Ulrika, Lichtenstein Paul, Pedersen Nancy L, Magnusson Patrik K E
Abstract excerpt
The Swedish Twin Registry functions as research infrastructure containing information on 216,258 twins born between 1886 and 2015, of whom 86,199 pairs have zygosity determined by DNA, an intrapair similarity algorithm, or being of opposite sex. In essence, practically all twins alive and currently 9 years or older have been invited for participation and donation of DNA on which genomewide single nucleotide...
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