Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: Since the Swedish Twin Registry was first established in the late 1950s to study the importance of smoking and alcohol consumption on cancer and cardiovascular diseases, it has been expanded and updated on several occasions. The focus has similarly broadened to most common complex diseases. The content of the database is described, ongoing projects based on the registry are summarized, and we review some of the principal findings on aging, cancer and cardiovascular disease that have come from the registry. Ongoing efforts and future plans for the STR are discussed. Among others, we plan blood collection and genotyping to study the genetic bases of complex diseases, a first contact ever with the cohorts born after 1958, and in-depth studies of selected diseases, such as Parkinson's disease and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Source: Twin Research
Institutions: University of Southern California, Karolinska Institutet
Language: English
Subfield: Genetics
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES IN BEHAVIORAL AGING, G1567932728, A Twin Study of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Sweden, G2338584565, G247978122, Environmental Factors for Parkinson's in Swedish Twins, G3059653104, G3076798871, G364899994, G5862741731, Genetic & Environmental Influences-Biobehavioral Aging, DEMENTIA IN SWEDISH TWINS, G9000074720, G9000079296, G9000151097
OpenAlex ID: W1994000850