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© 1982 Oxford University Press

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A Cross-National Epidemiological Resource: The Swedish and Finnish Cohort Studies of Like-Sexed Twins

RUNE CEDERLÖF*, ILARI RANTASALO{dagger}, BIRGITTA FLODERUS-MYRHED*, NIKLAS HAMMAR*, JAAKKO KAPRIO{dagger}, MARKKU KOSKENVUO{dagger}, HEIMO LANGINVAINIO{dagger} and SEPPO SARNA{dagger}

* Department of Environmental Hygiene of the Karolinska Institute and the National Institute of Environmental Medicine, S-10401 Stockholm, Sweden.
{dagger}Department of Public Health Science, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 3, SF-00290, Helsinki 29, Finland.

Cederlöf R (Department of Environmental Hygiene, Karolinska Institute and National Institute of Environmental Medicine, S-10401 Stockholm, Sweden), Rantasalo I, Floderus-Myrhed, B, Hammar N, Kaprio J, Koskenvuo M, Langinvainio H, Sarna S. A cross-national epidemiological resource: the Swedish and Finnish cohort studies of like-sexed twins. International Journal of Epidemiology 1982, 11: 387–390.

Two large-scale studies of adult like-sexed twin pairs are ongoing in Sweden and Finland. Both studies comprise an unselected series that has been studied in a comparable fashion. Zygosity determination and health questionnaire data-gathering were carried out in 1973 for the Swedish study and in 1975 for the Finnish study for the comparable age groups. Data on hospital usage, cancer incidence and mortality are collected by record-linkage from the respective national registries. Cross-national twin studies can permit testing of hypotheses of the relationships between genetic and cultural factors and major chronic diseases and their risk factors.

Revised 1 March 1982


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