The Danish Twin Registry: An Updated Overview.
Twin Res Hum Genet
; 22(6): 499-507, 2019 12.
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ABSTRACT
The Danish Twin Registry (DTR) was established in the 1950s, when twins born from 1870 to 1910 were ascertained, and has since been extended to include twins from birth cohorts until 2009. The DTR currently comprises of more than 175,000 twins from the 140 birth cohorts. This makes the DTR the oldest nationwide twin register and among the largest in the world. The combination of data from several surveys, including biological samples and repeated measurements on the same individuals, and data from Danish national registers provides a unique resource for a wide range of twin studies. This article provides an updated overview of the data in the DTR First, we provide a summary of the establishment of the register, the different ascertainment methods and the twins included; then follows an overview of major surveys conducted in the DTR since 1994 and a description of the DTR biobank, including a description of the molecular data created so far; finally, a short description is given of the linkage to Danish national registers at Statistics Denmark and some recent examples of studies using the various data resources in the DTR are highlighted.
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Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Gemelos Dicigóticos
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Gemelos Monocigóticos
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Envejecimiento
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Sistema de Registros
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Enfermedades en Gemelos
Tipo de estudio:
Incidence_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Child
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Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Twin Res Hum Genet
Asunto de la revista:
GENETICA MEDICA
Año:
2019
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Dinamarca