Swedish twin registry
The Swedish Twin Registry (STR) is the largest twin registry in the world. The state register counts over 140,000 living and deceased twin pairs and is part of a European register with 600,000 twins (as of 2008).
Twin registers are the basis of twin research .
Story and goal
The Swedish twin registry is administered by the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the Karolinska Institute . It was founded in the early 1960s by Professors Lars Friberg and Rune Cederlöf with the aim of studying the effects of smoking on our health. Her research was one of the first to show that smokers are more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers . It is only slightly older than the Danish twin register, which was founded in 1954 .
The database consists of several birth cohorts, i.e. twins who were born in a certain period of time. The address directory is updated monthly, the cancer and death directory annually.
The database was used, among other things, to examine:
- Dementia diseases
- Osteoporosis and cardiovascular diseases
- 2004 by Wheelwright as part of the genomeutwin project
Individual evidence
- ^ David G. Myers, S. Hoppe-Graff, B. Keller: Psychology . Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Edition: 2nd exp. u. updated edition (July 14, 2008). ISBN 3540790322 , page 106
- ↑ Dementia: When forgetfulness becomes a disease ( memento of the original from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Article on the website of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- ↑ Twin study: Osteoporosis and cardiovascular diseases with common roots - Article in Deutsches Ärzteblatt (Wednesday, October 21, 2009)
- ↑ GenomEUTwin main page ( memento of the original from June 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)
Web links
- The Swedish Twin Registry - administered on the website of the Karolinska Institute