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Age, Sex, and Genetic and Environmental Effects on Unintentional Injuries in Young and Adult Twins
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of genetic and environment influences and sex on injury involvement using two sets of Finnish twin data. The younger participants were 955 twins born between 1983 and 1987, aged 20 to 24 years. The older participants were 12,428 twins born between 193...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6390381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30428952 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/thg.2018.61 |
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author | Salminen, Simo Vuoksimaa, Eero Rose, Richard J. Kaprio, Jaakko |
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description | The aim of this study was to examine the effects of genetic and environment influences and sex on injury involvement using two sets of Finnish twin data. The younger participants were 955 twins born between 1983 and 1987, aged 20 to 24 years. The older participants were 12,428 twins born between 1930 and 1957, aged 33 to 60 years. Within-twin correlations in monozygotic and dizygotic twins suggested that genetic effects play no role in injury involvement among young twins, but do have some effect at older ages. The results indicated that environmental factors have greater importance in injury involvement than genetic factors in the younger twin data set (FT12), whereas in a middle-aged (33–60 years) twin data set, genetic effects explained about quarter of the variance in injury involvement. Sex was a strong contributing factor, with males being generally more prone to injuries than females. |
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spelling | pubmed-63903812019-03-01 Age, Sex, and Genetic and Environmental Effects on Unintentional Injuries in Young and Adult Twins Salminen, Simo Vuoksimaa, Eero Rose, Richard J. Kaprio, Jaakko Twin Res Hum Genet Articles The aim of this study was to examine the effects of genetic and environment influences and sex on injury involvement using two sets of Finnish twin data. The younger participants were 955 twins born between 1983 and 1987, aged 20 to 24 years. The older participants were 12,428 twins born between 1930 and 1957, aged 33 to 60 years. Within-twin correlations in monozygotic and dizygotic twins suggested that genetic effects play no role in injury involvement among young twins, but do have some effect at older ages. The results indicated that environmental factors have greater importance in injury involvement than genetic factors in the younger twin data set (FT12), whereas in a middle-aged (33–60 years) twin data set, genetic effects explained about quarter of the variance in injury involvement. Sex was a strong contributing factor, with males being generally more prone to injuries than females. Cambridge University Press 2018-12 2018-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6390381/ /pubmed/30428952 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/thg.2018.61 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Salminen, Simo Vuoksimaa, Eero Rose, Richard J. Kaprio, Jaakko Age, Sex, and Genetic and Environmental Effects on Unintentional Injuries in Young and Adult Twins |
title | Age, Sex, and Genetic and Environmental Effects on Unintentional Injuries in Young and Adult Twins |
title_full | Age, Sex, and Genetic and Environmental Effects on Unintentional Injuries in Young and Adult Twins |
title_fullStr | Age, Sex, and Genetic and Environmental Effects on Unintentional Injuries in Young and Adult Twins |
title_full_unstemmed | Age, Sex, and Genetic and Environmental Effects on Unintentional Injuries in Young and Adult Twins |
title_short | Age, Sex, and Genetic and Environmental Effects on Unintentional Injuries in Young and Adult Twins |
title_sort | age, sex, and genetic and environmental effects on unintentional injuries in young and adult twins |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6390381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30428952 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/thg.2018.61 |
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