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The role of occupational class on the association between sickness absence and disability pension: A Swedish register-based twin study

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, Jurgita Narusyte, Annina Ropponen, Gunnar Bergström, Lisa Mather, Victoria Blom, Pia Svedberg   +6 more
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An overview of human handedness in twins

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
There has been a long-standing debate on the complex correlation between the development of human hand preference and brain lateralization. Handedness, used as a proxy for cerebral lateralization, is a topic of considerable importance because of its ...
Syuichi eOoki
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Twins Assessing Their Own and Parental Intelligence: Examining the Raters’ Agreement and the Effect of Raters’ and Targets’ Gender

Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2020
The goal of this study was to explore the raters’ agreement and the effect of raters’ and targets’ gender on self- and parental intelligence assessments in the sample of Croatian twins.
Denis Bratko, Martina Pocrnić, Ana Butković   +2 more
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Effects of smoking on genome-wide DNA methylation profiles: A study of discordant and concordant monozygotic twin pairs

eLife, 2023
Background: Smoking-associated DNA methylation levels identified through epigenome-wide association studies (EWASs) are generally ascribed to smoking-reactive mechanisms, but the contribution of a shared genetic predisposition to smoking and DNA ...
Jenny van Dongen, Gonneke Willemsen, BIOS Consortium, Eco JC de Geus, Dorret I Boomsma, Michael C Neale   +5 more
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Geographically constrained resource potential of integrating floating photovoltaics in global existing offshore wind farms

Advances in Applied Energy
Marine renewable energy is gaining prominence as a crucial component of the energy supply in coastal cities due to proximity and minimal land requirements.
Yubin Jin, Zhenzhong Zeng, Yuntian Chen, Rongrong Xu, Alan D. Ziegler, Wenchuang Chen, Bin Ye, Dongxiao Zhang   +7 more
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Are the Morphological Indices of the Vertebrobasilar System Heritable? A Twin Study Based on 3D Reconstructed Models

Medicina, 2021
Background and Objectives: The asymmetrical vertebral artery (VA) flow and diameter are common findings, which can result in an asymmetrical blood flow in the basilar artery (BA), leading to bending of the artery over time.
Laszlo Szalontai, Zsofia Jokkel, Tamas Horvath, Marton Piroska, Bianka Forgo, Csaba Olah, Laszlo Kostyal, David L. Tarnoki, Adam D. Tarnoki   +8 more
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Heritability of Cardiothoracic Ratio and Aortic Arch Calcification in Twins

Medicina, 2021
Background and Objectives: Aortic arch calcification (AoAC) is associated with a variety of cardiovascular complications. The measurement and grading of AoAC using posteroanterior (PA) chest X-rays are well established. The cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) can
Zsofia Jokkel, Bianka Forgo, Christopher Hani-Gaius Ghattas, Marton Piroska, Helga Szabó, David L. Tarnoki, Adam D. Tarnoki, Sooji Lee, Joohon Sung   +8 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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The Nature and Nurture of Congenital Amusia: A Twin Case Study

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018
In this article, we report the first documented case of congenital amusia in dizygotic twins. The female twin pair was 27 years old at the time of testing, with normal hearing and above average intelligence. Both had formal music lesson from the age of 8–
Jasmin Pfeifer, Jasmin Pfeifer, Silke Hamann   +2 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, Grant, Julia D, Heath, Andrew C, Madden, Pamela A.F., Tandon, Mini   +4 more
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