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Socioeconomic Status and Sickness Absence - What do twins tell us about causality? [PDF]

The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate causal effects between socioeconomic status and absence from the workplace due to sickness. To be able to conclude that income causally affects health it is important to control for both reverse ...
Nilsson, William
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Signal Amplification in the HPT Axis—Evidence for Its Existence, Location, Significance, and Molecular Mechanisms

Acta Physiologica, Volume 242, Issue 4, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Thyroid hormones (THs) are under negative feedback regulation via the hypothalamic–pituitary‐thyroid (HPT) axis. How this axis operates to keep the circulating THs within a narrow physiological range is not well understood quantitatively. Led by the design principle of robust homeostatic feedback control, here we review and synthesize the ...
Li Jing, Sarahna A. Moyd, Qiang Zhang
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Report of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN) on nutritional risks for women during menopause, perimenopause and postmenopause

Food Risk Assess Europe, Volume 4, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Menopause is the time when a woman transitions from the reproductive stage of life to the non‐reproductive state. It is characterised by significant hormonal changes, which can affect a woman's physical, emotional, mental and social well‐being.
Irene Bretón Lesmes, Concepción María Aguilera García, Araceli Díaz Perales, Ángel Gil Izquierdo, Gema Nieto Martínez, Ana María Rivas Velasco, Virginia Arianna Aparicio García‐Molina, María Ángeles Carlos Chillerón   +7 more
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Monozygotic twins with polypoidal choroidal vasuculopathy

Clinical Ophthalmology, 2010
Shigeki Machida1, Tomomi Takahashi1, Norimoto Gotoh2, Nagahisa Yoshimura2, Takamitsu Fujiwara1, Dajiro Kurosaka11Department of Ophthalmology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, 2Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University ...
Shigeki Machida, Tomomi Takahashi, Norimoto Gotoh, et al   +3 more
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Monozygotic twins discordant for juvenile dermatomyositis: clinical, serological and gene expression studies

Pediatric Rheumatology Online Journal
Background Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare pediatric autoimmune disease involving a combination of environmental and genetic susceptibility factors.
Lauren M. Pachman, Amer Khojah, Gabrielle Morgan, Wilfredo Marin, Judith James, Sabah Kadri, Kai Lee Yap   +6 more
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Long‐term impact of stressful life events on breast cancer risk: A 36‐year genetically informed prospective study in the Finnish Twin Cohort

International Journal of Cancer, Volume 158, Issue 6, Page 1489-1497, 15 March 2026.
What's new? Breast cancer results from a combination of genetic and environmental causes, and the cumulative effect of stressful life events may be a contributing factor. Here, the authors analyzed data from cohort and twin‐pair studies including 36 years of follow‐up to find out how stressful life events affect breast cancer risk. They found that even
Elissar Azzi, Hannes Bode, Teemu Palviainen, Mikaela Hukkanen, Miina Ollikainen, Jaakko Kaprio   +5 more
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Ovarian Mature and Immature Teratomas in Monozygotic Twins: A Case Report of Simultaneous Presentation

Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2017
Mature cystic teratoma is one of the most common kinds of ovarian tumor, and immature teratoma is a rare tumor, representing less than 1% of all ovarian teratomas.
Daisuke Shigemi, Naoki Kawai, Toshiyuki Takeshita   +2 more
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From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes [PDF]

Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings.
Kjell Salvanes, Paul J. Devereux, Sandra E. Black   +2 more
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The Fertility Pattern of Twins and the General Population Compared: Evidence from Danish Cohorts 1945-64 [PDF]

Twin studies provide an important possibility for demographers to analyze patterns of heritability and to estimate structural models with controls for endowments. These possibilities are increasingly used in the context of fertility and related behaviors.
Axel Skytthe, Hans-Peter Kohler, Kaare Christensen, Lisbeth B. Knudsen   +3 more
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Class - III malocclusion: Genetics or environment? A twins study

Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, 2005
Etiology of class-III malocclusion is generally believed to be genetic. A wide range of environmental factors have been suggested as contributing factors for the development of class-III malocclusion.
Jena A, Duggal R, Mathur V, Parkash H
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