Article
Life expectancy of monozygotic and dizygotic twins.
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae - 1 Jan 1993
Taubman P
Abstract excerpt
White male twins from the NAS-NRC twin sample, who were born in the U.S. between 1917 and 1927 and served in the military, are used to estimate variability in hazard functions for those twins who died during the period 1974-1990. Roughly the same number of MZ and DZ twins died during this period, but their death rates are similar. DZ twins exhibit greater within-pair variation. Using hazard and other analyses,...
Topics
- Aged
- Environment
- Genotype
- Humans
- Life Expectancy
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Probability
- Proportional Hazards Models
- Twins, Dizygotic
- Twins, Monozygotic