Genetic Susceptibility to Death from Coronary Heart Disease in a Study of Twins
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- 14 April 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 330 (15), 1041-1046
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199404143301503
Abstract
A family history of premature coronary heart disease has long been thought to be a risk factor for coronary heart disease. Using data from 26 years of follow-up of 21,004 Swedish twins born between 1886 and 1925, we investigated this issue further by assessing the risk of death from coronary heart disease in pairs of monozygotic and dizygotic twins.Keywords
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