Heredity and infectious diseases: a twin study.
A concordance study of 6 infectious diseases of childhood has been carried out in a sample of 656 twin pairs classified by sex and zygosity. A new approach is proposed to estimate the respective influence of heredity and of common environment. The estimates thus obtained range from 86% hereditary component in the case of measles to 100% environmental component in the case of scarlet fever.
D000328:Adult; D002644:Chickenpox / Q000235:genetics; D004200:Diseases in Twins; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008457:Measles / Q000235:genetics; D009107:Mumps / Q000235:genetics; D012409:Rubella / Q000235:genetics; D012541:Scarlet Fever / Q000235:genetics; D014917:Whooping Cough / Q000235:genetics