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An Italian Twin Study of Non-Cancer Chronic Pain as a Wide Phenotype and Its Intensity
Medicina, 2022 Background and Objectives: Non-cancer chronic pain (CP) results from the interaction between genetic and environmental factors. Twin studies help to estimate genetic and environmental contributions to complex traits such as CP.
Corrado Fagnani +6 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2019 OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine the association between long-term sickness absence (LTSA) due to mental disorders and musculoskeletal disorders and all-cause disability pension (DP) among blue- and white-collar workers.
Björg Helgadóttir +6 more
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Twin Studies in Narcolepsy [PDF]
Sleep, 1994 The genetic basis of narcolepsy is reflected by the strong association to human leukocyte antigen DR2 (most specifically to DQB1-0602) and the occasional familial occurrence, with several modes of transmission. At present, 12 monozygotic pairs with at least one affected twin have been reported.
Christian Guilleminault +4 more
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Dementia risk in women higher in same‐sex than opposite‐sex twins
Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 2020 Introduction Hormones may be one possible mechanism underlying sex differences in dementia incidence. We examined whether presumed differential prenatal hormone milieu is related to dementia risk by comparing dementia rates in same‐ and opposite‐sex ...
Jing Luo +5 more
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Heritability of decisions and outcomes of public goods games
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Prosociality is one of the most distinctive features of human beings but there are individual differences in cooperative behavior. Employing the twin method, we examined the heritability of cooperativeness and its outcomes on public goods games using a ...
Kai eHiraishi +3 more
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Evidence That Pupil Size and Reactivity Are Determined More by Your Parents Than by Your Environment
Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 Purpose: A classic twin study to evaluate the relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors to resting pupil size and reactivity.Methods: Pupillometry was performed on 326 female twins (mean age 64 years) from the TwinsUK Adult Twin ...
Abdus Samad Ansari +5 more
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Smoking as an early risk factor for problematic parenting practices [PDF]
, 2017 Parenting among those who use non-illicit and more common drugs such as cigarettes remains an understudied area for investigation. Secondary data analyses were performed in 2015 on a prospective study with parent and twin data available on n=3,009 ...
Bucholz, Kathleen K +4 more
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Obesity Science & Practice, 2021 Background Early childhood (0–3 years) is a critical period for obesity prevention, when tendencies in eating behaviors and physical activity are established.
Shabnam R. Momin +12 more
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Heavy Higgs of the Twin Higgs Models
, 2018 Twin Higgs models are the prime illustration of neutral naturalness, where the new particles of the twin sector, gauge singlets of the Standard Model (SM), ameliorate the little hierarchy problem. In this work, we analyse phenomenological implications of
Ahmed, Aqeel
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Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity, 2021 Chunxiao Liao,1 Wenjing Gao,1 Weihua Cao,1 Jun Lv,1 Canqing Yu,1 Shengfeng Wang,1 Zengchang Pang,2 Liming Cong,3 Hua Wang,4 Xianping Wu,5 Liming Li1 1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing ...
Liao C +10 more
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