The Swedish Twin Registry: a unique resource for clinical, epidemiological and genetic studies

By P. Lichtenstein, U. Faire, B. Floderus, M. Svartengren, P. Svedberg, N. Pedersen. Journal of Internal Medicine, 2002

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Subfields: Genetics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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Citations in the corpus

• Role of genes and environments for explaining Alzheimer disease. (2006, background): “The compilation of the Swedish Twin Registry is described in detail elsewhere.(18) In 1961, a questionnaire was sent to all likesex twin pairs born between 1886 and 1925 in which both twins were alive, with twin births having been identified from parish records.”
• The genetic basis of entrepreneurship: Effects of gender and personality (2009, background): “The sample for the current study was drawn from the Swedish Twin Registry (STR) that was established in the late 1950s (for details see Lichtenstein et al., 2002; Pedersen et al., 2002).”
• Processing Speed and Longitudinal Trajectories of Change for Cognitive Abilities: The Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging (2004, background): “The origin of the project dates to 1978 when it was observed that an appreciable number of twins in the Swedish Twin Registry (Lichtenstein et al., 2002; Pedersen, Lichtenstein, & Svedberg, 2002) indicated that they had been separated at some time during early rearing.”
• Did sexual selection shape human music? Testing predictions from the sexual selection hypothesis of music evolution using a large genetically informative sample of over 10,000 twins (2015, methodology): “For further details on the STAGE cohort and zygosity determination in the Swedish Twin Registry see Lichtenstein et al. (2002, 2006).”
• Heritability of Adult Body Height: A Comparative Study of Twin Cohorts in Eight Countries (2003, background): “Data are from the 1973 cohort of the Swedish Twin Registry, which includes the largest sample of twin pairs with height data who were from 20 to 40 years of age at the time of testing (Lichtenstein et al., 2002; Pedersen et al., 2002).”
• Psychometric properties and heritability of a new online test for musicality, the Swedish Musical Discrimination Test (2014, positive): “These have subsequently been confirmed in 27% of the twins in the registry using genotyping , showing that the questionnaire based zygosity determination was correct for more than 98% of twin pairs (Lichtenstein et al., 2002, 2006).”