Project Talent Twin and Sibling Study
Initiatives
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We seek to answer such questions as: Why do some people stay healthy into older age, while others decline in middle age?How does work history influence later-life health?
**Contact: ProjectTalent@air.org**
- Start Year
- 2012
- Funding
- National Institute on Aging
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- 5 waves (follow up 54 years)
- Supplementary Information
- https://dornsife.usc.edu/labs/projecttalent/ptts2/
Marker Paper
Prescott CA, Walters EE, Arpawong TE, Zavala C, Gruenewald TL, Gatz M. The Project Talent Twin and Sibling Study: Zygosity and New Data Collection. Twin Res Hum Genet. 2019;22(6):769-778. doi:10.1017/thg.2019.117
PUBMED 32043952
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Families
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 4,481
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Siblings from 2233 families
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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