Carolina African-American Twin Study of Aging
Initiatives
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To identify the proportion of the genetic and environmental sources of individual variation in measures of health and behavioral factors in a sample of adult African Americans.
*Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.*
- Start Year
- 1999
- End Year
- 2003
- Funding
- NIA
- Supplementary Information
- https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/74/Supplement_1/S27/5625179
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Supplementary Information
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-human-genetics/article/igems-the-consortium-on-interplay-of-genes-and-environment-across-multiple-studies-an-update/B73180F0669DE5A6E548D6D7DC3F6982/core-reader
Marker Paper
Whitfield, K. E. (2013). A registry of adult african american twins: The carolina african american twin study of aging. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 16(1), 476-480.
PUBMED 23088829
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Families
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 572
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Twins between 22 and 92 years of age.
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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