2006
DOI: 10.1375/183242706779462444
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The Swedish Twin Registry in the Third Millennium: An Update

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“…The registry is the largest twin registry in the world and has been described in detail elsewhere (36). Same-sex twins born 1960-1985 were solicited by e-mail and recruited in all major Swedish cities through the summer and fall of 2006.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The registry is the largest twin registry in the world and has been described in detail elsewhere (36). Same-sex twins born 1960-1985 were solicited by e-mail and recruited in all major Swedish cities through the summer and fall of 2006.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In total, 658 individuals (71 DZ and 258 MZ pairs of twins) participated. Zygosity was assigned by questionnaire items that have been shown to have a reliability of up to 98% (36).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We use data from a survey known as SALTY (Screening Across the Lifespan Twin Study: the Younger), which was a collaborative effort between researchers in epidemiology, medicine, and economics, initiated in 2008 and completed in the winter of 2010 (Lichtenstein et al 2006;Magnusson et al 2013). SALTY is the first major survey of twins that features entire sections specifically devoted to economic preferences and behaviors.…”
Section: Salty Surveymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Birth weight Data for our birth weight variable come from delivery archives throughout Sweden (Lichtenstein et al 2006) or, when archival data are missing, from a question in the SALT survey asking "What was your birth weight?" The birth weight variable is scaled in kilograms.…”
Section: Other Variablesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The participants in this study were drawn from the Swedish Twin Registry which was established in the late 1950s to study smoking and alcohol consumption in relation to potential risk of cancer and cardiovascular diseases [18,19] . In 1963, the participants answered questionnaires including questions about health and diseases, smoking habits, alcohol consumption, physical activity, and information on weight and height.…”
Section: Participantsmentioning
confidence: 99%