Axel Skytthe

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1 Heritability of adult body height: a comparative study of twin cohorts in eight countries. Twin Res 2003 6.43
2 Genetic influence on human lifespan and longevity. Hum Genet 2006 3.27
3 Exploring the association between severe respiratory syncytial virus infection and asthma: a registry-based twin study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2009 2.50
4 Age- and sex-differences in the validity of questionnaire-based zygosity in twins. Twin Res 2003 2.16
5 Risk of suicide in twins: 51 year follow up study. BMJ 2003 2.08
6 A cohort study of recurrence patterns among more than 54,000 relatives of oral cleft cases in Denmark: support for the multifactorial threshold model of inheritance. J Med Genet 2009 1.89
7 Association between height and coronary heart disease mortality: a prospective study of 35,000 twin pairs. Am J Epidemiol 2006 1.85
8 Comparison of academic performance of twins and singletons in adolescence: follow-up study. BMJ 2006 1.75
9 Genetic liability in stroke: a long-term follow-up study of Danish twins. Stroke 2002 1.72
10 Genetic influences on exercise participation in 37,051 twin pairs from seven countries. PLoS One 2006 1.71
11 Education reduces the effects of genetic susceptibilities to poor physical health. Int J Epidemiol 2009 1.69
12 Co-morbidity of migraine with somatic disease in a large population-based study. Cephalalgia 2010 1.65
13 Genetic and environmental contributions to weight, height, and BMI from birth to 19 years of age: an international study of over 12,000 twin pairs. PLoS One 2012 1.51
14 Genetic influence on prolonged gestation: a population-based Danish twin study. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2004 1.51
15 A possible association between the genetic predisposition for dizygotic twinning and schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2002 1.49
16 Genome-wide linkage analysis for human longevity: Genetics of Healthy Aging Study. Aging Cell 2013 1.33
17 Familial aggregation of atrial fibrillation: a study in Danish twins. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol 2009 1.32
18 Handgrip strength among nonagenarians and centenarians in three European regions. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2006 1.25
19 Parent's age and the risk of oral clefts. Epidemiology 2005 1.23
20 Risk for multiple sclerosis in dizygotic and monozygotic twins. Mult Scler 2005 1.21
21 Risk of oral clefts in twins. Epidemiology 2011 1.18
22 The causal direction in the association between respiratory syncytial virus hospitalization and asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2009 1.16
23 Association between migraine, lifestyle and socioeconomic factors: a population-based cross-sectional study. J Headache Pain 2011 1.14
24 Bio-social determinants of fertility. Int J Androl 2006 1.13
25 Risk of lung cancer according to mild steel and stainless steel welding. Scand J Work Environ Health 2007 1.11
26 The heritability of CHD mortality in danish twins after controlling for smoking and BMI. Twin Res Hum Genet 2005 1.09
27 Familial aggregation and heritability of pyloric stenosis. JAMA 2010 1.07
28 Major genetic susceptibility for venous thromboembolism in men: a study of Danish twins. Epidemiology 2003 1.07
29 A cohort study of Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders in Danish welders. J Occup Environ Med 2005 1.05
30 Does education confer a culture of healthy behavior? Smoking and drinking patterns in Danish twins. Am J Epidemiol 2010 1.01
31 Increased genetic variance of BMI with a higher prevalence of obesity. PLoS One 2011 1.00
32 Birth weight and risk of asthma in 3-9-year-old twins: exploring the fetal origins hypothesis. Thorax 2009 0.99
33 Genetic epidemiology of spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage: Nordic Twin Study. Stroke 2010 0.99
34 Education modifies genetic and environmental influences on BMI. PLoS One 2011 0.99
35 Causal direction between respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis and asthma studied in monozygotic twins. Chest 2010 0.96
36 Do children of long-lived parents age more successfully? Epidemiology 2002 0.95
37 Is the natural twinning rate still declining? Epidemiology 2005 0.94
38 Increase in the heritability of asthma from 1994 to 2003 among adolescent twins. Respir Med 2011 0.93
39 Genetic and environmental factors in alexithymia: a population-based study of 8,785 Danish twin pairs. Psychother Psychosom 2007 0.91
40 Time trends in waiting time to pregnancy among Danish twins. Hum Reprod 2005 0.91
41 Low birth weight is not associated with thyroid autoimmunity: a population-based twin study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2006 0.90
42 Increased concordance of severe respiratory syncytial virus infection in identical twins. Pediatrics 2008 0.90
43 Religiousness and religious coping in a secular society: the gender perspective. J Relig Health 2014 0.88
44 The heritability of cause-specific mortality: a correlated gamma-frailty model applied to mortality due to respiratory diseases in Danish twins born 1870-1930. Stat Med 2003 0.88
45 Recurrence risk for offspring of twins discordant for oral cleft: a population-based cohort study of the Danish 1936-2004 cleft twin cohort. Am J Med Genet A 2010 0.87
46 Heritability and environmental effects for self-reported periods with stuttering: a twin study from Denmark. Logoped Phoniatr Vocol 2010 0.87
47 The danish twin registry: past and present. Twin Res 2004 0.86
48 A novel sampling design to explore gene-longevity associations: the ECHA study. Eur J Hum Genet 2007 0.86
49 The Danish political twin study: political traits in Danish twins and the general population. Twin Res Hum Genet 2012 0.85
50 Cancer and longevity--is there a trade-off? A study of cooccurrence in Danish twin pairs born 1900-1918. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2012 0.85
51 Register-based research on twins. Scand J Public Health 2011 0.85
52 On the origin of rheumatoid arthritis: the impact of environment and genes--a population based twin study. PLoS One 2013 0.85
53 Birth size and age at menarche: a twin perspective. Hum Reprod 2013 0.84
54 Familial resemblance in religiousness in a secular society: a twin study. Twin Res Hum Genet 2013 0.82
55 The impact of genes on the occurrence of autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis. A study on disease discordant twin pairs. J Autoimmun 2013 0.82
56 Increase in self-reported migraine prevalence in the Danish adult population: a prospective longitudinal population-based study. BMJ Open 2012 0.82
57 Genetic and environmental influences on risk of death due to infections assessed in Danish twins, 1943-2001. Am J Epidemiol 2010 0.82
58 Breast cancer onset in twins and women with bilateral disease. J Clin Oncol 2008 0.81
59 Handgrip strength: indications of paternal inheritance in three European regions. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2010 0.81
60 Atopic diseases in twins born after assisted reproduction. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 2011 0.81
61 Decreasing incidence rate for surgically treated middle ear cholesteatoma in Denmark 1977-2007. Dan Med Bull 2010 0.81
62 Heritability in political interest and efficacy across cultures: Denmark and the United States. Twin Res Hum Genet 2012 0.80
63 Validation of the cholesteatoma diagnosis in the Danish National Hospital Register. Dan Med Bull 2010 0.80
64 Evidence for an association of methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphism C677T and an increased risk of fractures: results from a population-based Danish twin study. Osteoporos Int 2004 0.80
65 The effect of losing the twin and losing the partner on mortality. Twin Res 2002 0.79
66 Genetic Factors Explain Variation in the Age at Onset of Psoriasis: A Population-based Twin Study. Acta Derm Venereol 2016 0.78
67 Twins with implanted pacemakers: Is there an increased mortality risk for the co-twin? A follow-up study based on the Danish Twin Registry and the Danish Pacemaker Register. Europace 2005 0.78
68 Traits of ADHD and autism in girls with a twin brother: a Mendelian randomization study. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2012 0.78
69 Heritability of health-related quality of life: SF-12 summary scores in a population-based nationwide twin cohort. Twin Res Hum Genet 2013 0.78
70 Existential meaning among first-time full-term and preterm mothers: a questionnaire study. J Perinat Neonatal Nurs 2014 0.77
71 Risk of chronic bronchitis in twin pairs discordant for smoking. Lung 2012 0.77
72 Twins and their health cost: consequences of multiple births on parental health and mortality in Denmark and England and Wales. Twin Res Hum Genet 2006 0.77
73 Gene-environment interaction in atopic diseases: a population-based twin study of early-life exposures. Clin Respir J 2014 0.76
74 Cholesteatoma risk in 8,593 orofacial cleft cases and 6,989 siblings: A nationwide study. Laryngoscope 2014 0.76
75 Apgar score is related to development of atopic dermatitis: cotwin control study. J Allergy (Cairo) 2013 0.75
76 [Nazi Terror against the Danish Medical Profession. The February 20, 1945 Murders in Odense]. Dan Medicinhist Arbog 2015 0.75
77 Newborn infant characteristics and risk of future rheumatoid arthritis: a twin-control study. Rheumatol Int 2013 0.75
78 [School performance--no difference between twins and singletons--secondary publication]. Ugeskr Laeger 2007 0.75
79 Is the risk of bipolar disorder in twins equal to the risk in singletons? A nationwide register-based study. J Affect Disord 2004 0.75