The Guangzhou Twin Project
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The Guangzhou Twin Project.
The Guangzhou Twin Registry, initiated in 2005, is a population-based registry of twins born between 1987 and 2000. To date, over 9700 pairs of twins, regardless of their health and medical history, were enrolled in the database using the Official Household Registry of Guangzhou City. The twins were subsequently verified by door-to-door visits based on the registry address. The primary goal of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Twin Research and Human Genetics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1832-4274,1839-2628
DOI: 10.1375/twin.9.6.753