Twin and sibling studies using health insurance data: the example of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Twin studies are used to assess the contribution of genetic factors to the aetiology of diseases. To show the feasibility of such research on the basis of health insurance data, we analysed twin and sibling data on the attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the Germa...

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Main Authors: Ingo Langner, Edeltraut Garbe, Tobias Banaschewski, Rafael T Mikolajczyk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3634807?pdf=render