Yingfeng Zheng,Xiaohu Ding,Yanxian Chen et al.
Yingfeng Zheng et al.
The Guangzhou Twin Registry is a population-based registry of twins residing in Guangzhou City. The initial registry database included 9,700 pairs of young twins recruited from the Official Household Registry of Guangzhou City. The registry...
The Young Netherlands Twin Register (YNTR): longitudinal twin and family studies in over 70,000 children [0.03%]
荷兰青年双生子注册研究（YNTR）：超过7万名儿童的纵向双生子和家庭研究
Catharina E M van Beijsterveldt,Maria Groen-Blokhuis,Jouke Jan Hottenga et al.
Catharina E M van Beijsterveldt et al.
The Netherlands Twin Register (NTR) began in 1987 with data collection in twins and their families, including families with newborn twins and triplets. Twenty-five years later, the NTR has collected at least one survey for 70,784 children, ...
The Norwegian Twin Registry from a public health perspective: a research update [0.03%]
从公共卫生角度的挪威双胞胎注册局研究进展更新报告
Thomas S Nilsen,Gun Peggy Knudsen,Kristina Gervin et al.
Thomas S Nilsen et al.
We describe the importance of the Norwegian Twin Registry (NTR) for research in public health and provide examples from several programs of twin research at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), including the Nordic Twin Study of...
Yoon-Mi Hur,Jong Woo Kim,Kee Wha Chung et al.
Yoon-Mi Hur et al.
Twin studies of Africans have been scarce although Africans have shown the highest twin birth rate in the world. As a parallel study of the South Korean Twin Registry, the Nigerian Twin and Sibling Registry (NTSR) was developed to understan...
Harriëtte Riese,Frühling V Rijsdijk,Harold Snieder et al.
Harriëtte Riese et al.
The Twin Interdisciplinary Neuroticism Study (TWINS) is a three-wave study including >800 twin pairs from the northern part of the Netherlands. The aim of the study is to unravel why neuroticism reflects vulnerability to mental disorders. I...
Haiping Duan,Feng Ning,Dongfeng Zhang et al.
Haiping Duan et al.
In 1998, the Qingdao Twin Registry was initiated as the main part of the Chinese National Twin Registry. By 2005, a total of 10,655 twin pairs had been recruited. Since then new twin cohorts have been sampled, with one longitudinal cohort o...
Melyssa Tsai,Alaina M Mori,Christopher W Forsberg et al.
Melyssa Tsai et al.
Now celebrating its 26th year of existence, the Vietnam Era Twin Registry continues to be one of the largest national samples of adult twins in the United States. The Registry twin member population is composed of 7,369 US male-male twin pa...
The Beijing Twin Study (BeTwiSt): a longitudinal study of child and adolescent development [0.03%]
北京双生子研究（BeTwiSt）：一项关于儿童及青少年发展的纵向研究
Jie Chen,Xinying Li,Jianxin Zhang et al.
Jie Chen et al.
Rates of emotional and behavioral problems among children and adolescents in China are increasing and represent a major public health concern. To investigate the etiology of such problems, including the effects and interplay of genes and en...
How does the inclusion of twins conceived via fertility treatments influence the results of twin studies? [0.03%]
辅助生育技术双胞胎对双生子研究结果的影响分析
S Alexandra Burt,Kelly L Klump
S Alexandra Burt
Rates of twinning have risen dramatically over the last 30 years, from 1 in 53 births in 1980 to 1 in 30 births in 2009 (Martin et al. (January 2012). Three decades of twin births in the United States, 1980-2009. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Di...
Yuk Jing Loke,Boris Novakovic,Miina Ollikainen et al.
Yuk Jing Loke et al.
The Peri/postnatal Epigenetic Twins Study (PETS) is a longitudinal cohort of 250 pairs of Australian twins and their mothers, who were recruited mid-way through pregnancy from January 2007 to September 2009. The study is centered on the dev...