Lucas Calais Ferreira

Genetic and environmental variation in educational attainment: an individual-based analysis of 28 twin cohorts

Karri Silventoinen, Aline Jelenkovic, Reijo Sund, Antti Latvala, Chika Honda, Fujio Inui, Rie Tomizawa, Mikio Watanabe, Norio Sakai, Esther Rebato, Andreas Busjahn, Jessica Tyler, John L Hopper, Juan R Ordonana, Juan F Sanchez-Romera, Lucia Colodro-Conde, Lucas Calais-Ferreira, Vinicius C Oliveira, Paulo H Ferreira, Emanuela Medda, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Scientific Reports

We investigated the heritability of educational attainment and how it differed between birth cohorts and cultural-geographic regio..

The Value of Twins for Health and Medical Research: A Third of a Century of Progress

Jeffrey M Craig, Lucas Calais-Ferreira, Mark P Umstad, Dedra Buchwald

Journal article  |  2020  |  Twin Research and Human Genetics

In 1984, Hrubec and Robinette published what was arguably the first review of the role of twins in medical research. The authors a..

Cohort profile: the AUstralian Twin BACK pain and physical activity study (AUTBACK study)

Ana Paula Carvalho-e-Silva, Marina B Pinheiro, Manuela L Ferreira, Markus Hubscher, Lucas Calais-Ferreira, Paulo H Ferreira

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMJ Open

PURPOSE: Despite the growing evidence that physical activity and familial factors play a role in low back pain (LBP), there is a l..

The CODATwins Project: The Current Status and Recent Findings of COllaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins

K Silventoinen, A Jelenkovic, Y Yokoyama, R Sund, M Sugawara, M Tanaka, S Matsumoto, LH Bogl, DL Freitas, JA Maia, JVB Hjelmborg, S Aaltonen, M Piirtola, A Latvala, L Calais-Ferreira, VC Oliveira, PH Ferreira, F Ji, F Ning, Z Pang, et al.

Journal article  |  2019  |  Twin Research and Human Genetics

The COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins) project is a large international collab..

Twins Research Australia: A New Paradigm for Driving Twin Research

Kate Murphy, Janine Lam, Tessa Cutler, Jess Tyler, Lucas Calais-Ferreira, Shuai Li, Callie Little, Paulo Ferreira, Jeffrey M Craig, Katrina J Scurrah, John L Hopper

Journal article  |  2019  |  TWIN RESEARCH AND HUMAN GENETICS

Twins Research Australia (TRA) is a community of twins and researchers working on health research to benefit everyone, including t..

Contributions of birthweight, annualised weight gain and BMI to back pain in adults: a population-based co-twin control study of 2754 Australian twins

Hercules R Leite, Amabile B Dario, Alison R Harmer, Vinicius C Oliveira, Manuela L Ferreira, Lucas Calais-Ferreira, Paulo H Ferreira

Journal article  |  2019  |  European Spine Journal

Twin studies for the prognosis, prevention and treatment of musculoskeletal conditions

Lucas Calais-Ferreira, Vinicius C Oliveira, Jeffrey M Craig, Louisa B Flander, John L Hopper, Luci F Teixeira-Salmela, Paulo H Ferreira

Journal article  |  2018  |  Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy

Twins and twinning

MP Umstad, L Calais-Ferreira, KJ Scurrah, JG Hall, JM Craig

Book Chapter  |  2018

Fully revised and up-to-date, this new edition introduces genetic researchers, students, and health professionals to general princ..

The challenges of international scientific collaboration in twin research

Lucas Calais Ferreira

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2018

Twin studies enable powerful approaches for untangling the roles of genes and the environment on human traits and conditions. Twin..

The Brazilian Twin Registry

Paulo H Ferreira, Vinicius C Oliveira, Daniela R Junqueira, Ligia C Cisneros, Lucas C Ferreira, Kate Murphy, Juan R Ordonana, John L Hopper, Luci F Teixeira-Salmela

Journal article  |  2016  |  Twin Research and Human Genetics