title: The Chinese National Twin Registry: an update.
abstract: The Chinese National Twin Registry (CNTR), established in 2001, is the first and largest population-based twin registry in China. Based on the CNTR, a new twin cohort was recruited from 2011 to study the relationship between environmental risk factors and chronic diseases. So far, 33,874 twin pairs from nine provinces have been recruited, in which hundreds of disease-discordant twin pairs and even thousands of exposure-discordant twin pairs were found in this cohort. The updates of the CNTR will be introduced in detail in this article.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China. lmlee@vip.163.com
authors.forename: Liming
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Wenjing
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Canqing
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lv
authors.forename: Weihua
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Siyan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhan
authors.forename: Shengfeng
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Chaoqun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Yonghua
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004200:Diseases in Twins / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics*; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality / Q000235:genetics; D012042:Registries; D014427:Twins / Q000235:genetics*