Literature DB >> 15193163

The danish twin registry: past and present.

Bent Harvald1, Gudrun Hauge, Kirsten Ohm Kyvik, Kaare Christensen, Axel Skytthe, Niels V Holm.   

Abstract

The Danish Twin Registry was established formally in 1954 and thus celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2004. Here we give an account of its founding and the early years, and a brief summary of more recent progress.

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Year:  2004        PMID: 15193163     DOI: 10.1375/136905204774200451

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Twin Res        ISSN: 1369-0523


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Authors:  Gerard J van den Berg; Gabriele Doblhammer-Reiter; Kaare Christensen
Journal:  Demography       Date:  2011-05

2.  The Danish Twin Registry: linking surveys, national registers, and biological information.

Authors:  Axel Skytthe; Lene Christiansen; Kirsten Ohm Kyvik; Frans L Bødker; Lars Hvidberg; Inge Petersen; Morten M F Nielsen; Paul Bingley; Jacob Hjelmborg; Qihua Tan; Niels V Holm; James W Vaupel; Matt McGue; Kaare Christensen
Journal:  Twin Res Hum Genet       Date:  2012-10-19       Impact factor: 1.587

3.  Genetic epidemiology of Scheuermann's disease.

Authors:  Frank Damborg; Vilhelm Engell; Jan Nielsen; Kirsten O Kyvik; Mikkel Ø Andersen; Karsten Thomsen
Journal:  Acta Orthop       Date:  2011-09-06       Impact factor: 3.717

4.  Heritability of clubfoot: a twin study.

Authors:  Vilhelm Engell; Jan Nielsen; Frank Damborg; Kirsten Ohm Kyvik; Karsten Thomsen; Niels Wisbech Pedersen; Mikkel Andersen; Søren Overgaard
Journal:  J Child Orthop       Date:  2014-02-07       Impact factor: 1.548

Review 5.  The Danish National Patient Registry: a review of content, data quality, and research potential.

Authors:  Morten Schmidt; Sigrun Alba Johannesdottir Schmidt; Jakob Lynge Sandegaard; Vera Ehrenstein; Lars Pedersen; Henrik Toft Sørensen
Journal:  Clin Epidemiol       Date:  2015-11-17       Impact factor: 4.790

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