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Twin Research

September 2000, Volume 3, Issue 3
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Placenta of discordant twins: lack of change in histochemically detectable enzyme activities 123
S Matsubara, H Minakami & I Sato
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Infant zygosity can be assigned by parental report questionnaire data 129
Thomas S Price, Bernard Freeman, Ian Craig, Stephen A Petrill, Lorna Ebersole & Robert Plomin
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Zygosity diagnosis in young twins by parental report 134
M JH Rietveld, J C van der Valk, I L Bongers, T M Stroet, P E Slagboom & D I Boomsma
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The comparative constitution of twinship: strategies and paradoxes 142
E A Stewart
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Improved indices of insulin resistance and insulin secretion for use in genetic and population studies of type 2 diabetes mellitus 148
Arthur B Jenkins, Katherine Samaras, David GP Carey, Paul Kelly & Lesley V Campbell
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The effect of apolipoprotein(a)-, apolipoprotein E-, and apolipoprotein A4- polymorphisms on quantitative lipoprotein(a) concentrations 152
D I Boomsma, P de Knijff, A Kaptein, C Labeur, N G Martin, L M Havekes & H MG Princen
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Defining discordance in twin studies of risk and protective factors for late life disorders 159
Margaret Gatz, Nancy L Pedersen, Michael Crowe & Amy Fiske
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Structured latent growth curves for twin data 165
Michael C Neale & John J McArdle
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Report on the Second International Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 1-3 April 2000

Genetic Epidemology of Complex Traits 178
Toby Andrew
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Book Review

Advances in Twin and Sib-pair Analysis 179
Andreas Busjahn
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News, Views and Comments

180
Nancy L Segal
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