Concordance rates of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus: a population based study of young Danish twins.

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Published in BMJ on October 07, 1995

Authors

K O Kyvik1, A Green, H Beck-Nielsen

Author Affiliations

1: Genetic Epidemiology Research Unit, Institute of Community Health, Odense University, Denmark.

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