Open AccessRisk of Oral Clefts in Twins
Author(s) -
Dorthe Grosen,
Camilla Bille,
Inge Petersen,
Axel Skytthe,
Jacob Hjelmborg,
Jacob Krabbe Pedersen,
Jeffrey C. Murray,
Kaare Christensen
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/ede.0b013e3182125f9c
Subject(s) - concordance , heritability , medicine , zygosity , confidence interval , danish , dizygotic twin , twin study , demography , cohort , population , cohort study , epidemiology , pediatrics , biology , genetics , linguistics , philosophy , environmental health , sociology
Small studies have indicated that twinning increases the risk of oral cleft.