The East Flanders Prospective Twin Survey (EFPTS):55 Years Later
The East Flanders Prospective Twin Survey (EFPTS) is a registry of multiple births in the province of East Flanders, Belgium. Since its start in 1964, over 10,000 twin-pairs have been registered. EFPTS has several unique features: it is population-based and prospective, with the possibility of long-term follow-up; the twins (and higher order multiple births) are recruited at birth; basic perinatal data are recorded; chorion type and zygosity are established; since 1969, placental biopsies have been taken and frozen at -20 degrees C for future research. Since its origin, the EFPTS has included... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Derom , C , Thiery , E , Rutten , B P F , Peeters , H , Gielen , M , Bijnens , E , Vlietinck , R & Weyers , S 2019 , ' The East Flanders Prospective Twin Survey (EFPTS) : 55 Years Later ' , Twin Research and Human Genetics , vol. 22 , no. 6 , pp. 454-459 . https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2019.64 |
Schlagwörter: | Chorionicity / multiple births / ART / early-life environment / air pollution / stress / BIRTH-WEIGHT / GESTATIONAL-AGE / MONOZYGOTIC TWINS / X-INACTIVATION / INTELLIGENCE / ENVIRONMENT / TRENDS / GROWTH / LENGTH |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26695990 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/a8ee4632-9ab0-4cc7-9577-84f7edc17000 |