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The Danish Twin Registry in the New Millennium

2006-12-01

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Abstract The Danish Twin Registry is the oldest national twin register in the world, initiated in 1954, and, by the end of 2005, contained more than 75,000 twin pairs born in the between 1870 and 2004. The Danish Twin Registry is used as a source for studies on the genetic influence on normal variation in clinical parameters associated with the metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases, clinical studies of sp...

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Literature Corpus work: 8901520a-340c-5753-a925-b0d812c352da
DOI: 10.1375/twin.9.6.763

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