Open AccessTwenty-Four Year Mortality in World War II US Male Veteran Twins Discordant for Cigarette Smoking
Author(s) -
Dorit Carmelli,
William F. Page
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/25.3.554
Subject(s) - zygosity , medicine , relative risk , demography , confidence interval , cause of death , monozygotic twin , twin study , dizygotic twin , disease , heritability , genetics , sociology , biology
This study was undertaken to test the constitutional hypothesis which attributes the association of tobacco smoking with morbidity and mortality to genetic predispositions to smoking and/or disease.
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