Open AccessCommentary: Strengths and limitations of the discordant twin-pair design in social epidemiology. Where do we go from here?
Author(s) -
Mads Madsen,
Merete Osler
Publication year - 2009
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/dyp264
Subject(s) - epidemiology , social epidemiology , twin study , psychology , medicine , developmental psychology , gerontology , public health , social determinants of health , biology , heritability , pathology , genetics
It has become increasingly recognized that many of the associations between various exposures and health outcomes measured in adulthood are confounded by social and behavioural factors acting early in life, 1 and recent research has questioned
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