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The Screening Across the Lifespan of Twins
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The Screening Across the Lifespan of Twins

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Start Year
1998
End Year
2002
Supplementary Information
SALT is a sub-study of the Swedish Twin Registry (STR) and it is a complete screening of all twins from this registry
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Investigators Contacts
  • Dr. Prof Nancy Pedersen
    Karolinska Institutet

Design

Study design
Population cohort
Supplementary Information
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233383764_The_Swedish_Twin_Registry_Establishment_of_a_Biobank_and_Other_Recent_Developments

Marker Paper

Lichtenstein, P., Sullivan, P. F., Cnattingius, S., Gatz, M., Johansson, S., Carlström, E., ... & De Faire, U. (2006). The Swedish Twin Registry in the third millennium: an update. Twin research and human genetics, 9(6), 875-882.

PUBMED 17254424

Recruitment

Sources of Recruitment
  • Families

Number of participants

Number of participants
44,919
Number of participants with biosamples
Supplementary Information
Twin pairs in the Sweeden

Access

Availability of data and biosamples

Data
Biosamples
Other
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