William S Kremen,Carol E Franz,Michael J Lyons
William S Kremen
The Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA) is a longitudinal behavioral genetic study with a primary focus on cognitive and brain aging in men. It comprises a subset of over 1,200 twins from the Vietnam Era Twin Registry. Like many other s...
Malaysian Twin Registry [0.03%]
马来西亚双生子登记处
Shayesteh Jahanfar,Sharifah Halimah Jaffar
Shayesteh Jahanfar
The National Malaysian Twin Registry was established in Royal College of Medicine, Perak, University Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) in June 2008 through a grant provided by UniKL. The general objective is to facilitate scientific research involving p...
Sevgi Yurt Oncel,Fazil Aliev
Sevgi Yurt Oncel
In this article we introduce the first twin study in Turkey with the future plan to register all twins born in Turkey for research purposes. The Turkish twin study will illuminate the etiology of health problems in the context of cultural d...
S Alexandra Burt,Kelly L Klump
S Alexandra Burt
The primary aim of the Michigan State University Twin Registry (MSUTR) is on understanding developmental changes in genetic, environmental, and neurobiological influences on internalizing and externalizing disorders, with antisocial behavio...
Yoshie Yokoyama
Yoshie Yokoyama
The West Japan Twins and Higher Order Multiple Births Registry was established in the 1990s by recruiting young twins and multiples and through referrals from public health centers. To date, over 7,000 twins and 4,300 higher order multiple ...
The East Flanders Prospective Twin Survey (EFPTS): an actual perception [0.03%]
东弗拉芒前瞻性双胞胎研究（EFPTS）：实际感知
Catherine Derom,Evert Thiery,Hilde Peeters et al.
Catherine Derom et al.
The East Flanders Prospective Twin Survey (EFPTS) is a prospective, population-based registry of multiple births in the province of East-Flanders, Belgium. EFPTS has several unique features: it is population-based and prospective, with the ...
Carol A Prescott,Deanna Lyter Achorn,Ashley Kaiser et al.
Carol A Prescott et al.
Project TALENT is a US national longitudinal study of about 377,000 individuals born in 1942-1946, first assessed in 1960. Students in about 1,200 schools participated in a 2-day battery covering aptitudes, abilities, interests, and individ...
HealthTwiSt: the Berlin Twin Registry for health research [0.03%]
健康双生子研究：柏林双胞胎注册系统在健康领域的应用（HEALTHTWIST）
Andreas Busjahn
Andreas Busjahn
The Berlin Twin Registry has its focus on health research. It is operated as a private company, making twin studies available to academic institutions as well as commercial partners in the area of biotechnology and nutrition. Recruitment is...
Sally-Ann Rhea,Andy A Gross,Brett C Haberstick et al.
Sally-Ann Rhea et al.
The Colorado Twin Registry (CTR) is a population-based registry housed at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado. Recruitment began in 1982 and includes twins born from 1968 to the present. Four samples are curr...
Morten Bjerregaard-Andersen,Margarida A Gomes,Luis C Joaquím et al.
Morten Bjerregaard-Andersen et al.
Twins traditionally retain a special status in many African societies. In Guinea-Bissau, twins are often well regarded yet still suffer from a very high mortality, especially in the perinatal and infant period. At the Bandim Health Project,...