AUSTRALIAN CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN TWIN RESEARCH

Grant number: 1079102 | Funding period: 2014 - 2021

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The Australian Centre of Excellence in Twin Research will build on the Australian Twin Registry, which for 30 years has played an integral part in health & medical research. The new Centre aims to expand a state-of-the-art resource for conducting research, bring together leading national and international researchers from across disciplines, and build capacity in people, techniques, and expertise to continue to enable twin research to address major health and medical issues.

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Exploring human trainability: Design and rationale of Studies of Twin Responses to Understand Exercise as a Therapy (STRUETH) study

Channa E Marsh, Hannah J Thomas, Louise H Naylor, Katrina J Scurrah, Daniel J Green

2020-09-01

Background: Exercise confers myriad health benefits and physical inactivity is a modifiable risk factor for many non-communicable ..

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Association between birth weight and educational attainment: an individual-based pooled analysis of nine twin cohorts

Aline Jelenkovic, Janne Mikkonen, Pekka Martikainen, Antti Latvala, Yoshie Yokoyama, Reijo Sund, Eero Vuoksimaa, Esther Rebato, Joohon Sung, Jina Kim, Jooyeon Lee, Sooji Lee, Maria A Stazi, Corrado Fagnani, Sonia Brescianini, Catherine A Derom, Robert F Vlietinck, Ruth JF Loos, Robert F Krueger, Matt Mcgue

2018-09-01

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Association of current and former smoking with body mass index: A study of smoking discordant twin pairs from 21 twin cohorts

Maarit Piirtola, Aline Jelenkovic, Antti Latvala, Reijo Sund, Chika Honda, Fujio Inui, Mikio Watanabe, Rie Tomizawa, Yoshinori Iwatani, Juan R Ordonana, Juan F Sanchez-Romera, Lucia Colodro-Conde, Adam D Tarnoki, David L Tarnoki, Nicholas G Martin, Grant W Montgomery, Sarah E Medland, Finn Rasmussen, Per Tynelius, Qihua Tan

2018-07-12

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Genome-wide average DNA methylation is determined in utero

Shuai Li, Ee Ming Wong, Pierre-Antoine Dugue, Allan F McRae, Eunae Kim, Ji-Hoon Eric Joo, Tuong L Nguyen, Jennifer Stone, Gillian S Dite, Nicola J Armstrong, Karen A Mather, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Margaret J Wright, David Ames, Roger L Milne, Jeffrey M Craig, Richard Saffery, Grant W Montgomery, Yun-Mi Song, Joohon Sung

2018-06-01

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Associations between birth size and later height from infancy through adulthood: An individual based pooled analysis of 28 twin cohorts participating in the CODATwins project

Aline Jelenkovic, Yoshie Yokoyama, Reijo Sund, Yoon-Mi Hur, Jennifer R Harris, Ingunn Brandt, Thomas Sevenius Nilsen, Syuichi Ooki, Vilhelmina Ullemar, Catarina Almqvist, Patrik KE Magnusson, Kimberly J Saudino, Maria A Stazi, Corrado Fagnani, Sonia Brescianini, Tracy L Nelson, Keith E Whitfield, Ariel Knafo-Noam, David Mankuta, Lior Abramson

2018-05-01

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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

2018-05-01

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Birth size and gestational age in opposite-sex twins as compared to same-sex twins: An individual-based pooled analysis of 21 cohorts

Aline Jelenkovic, Reijo Sund, Yoshie Yokoyama, Yoon-Mi Hur, Vilhelmina Ullemar, Catarina Almqvist, Patrik KE Magnusson, Gonneke Willemsen, Meike Bartels, Catharina EM van Beijsterveldt, Leonie H Bogl, Kirsi H Pietilainen, Eero Vuoksimaa, Fuling Ji, Feng Ning, Zengchang Pang, Tracy L Nelson, Keith E Whitfield, Esther Rebato, Clare H Llewellyn

2018-04-19

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Novel associations between blood DNA methylation and body mass index in middle-aged and older adults

YM Geurts, P-A Dugue, JE Joo, E Makalic, C-H Jung, W Guan, S Nguyen, ML Grove, EM Wong, AM Hodge, JK Bassett, LM FitzGerald, H Tsimiklis, L Baglietto, G Severi, DF Schmidt, DD Buchanan, RJ MacInnis, JL Hopper, JS Pankow

2018-04-01

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Causal effect of smoking on DNA methylation in peripheral blood: a twin and family study

Shuai Li, Ee Ming Wong, Minh Bui, Tuong L Nguyen, Ji-Hoon Eric Joo, Jennifer Stone, Gillian S Dite, Graham G Giles, Richard Saffery, Melissa C Southey, John L Hopper

2018-02-09

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Does the sex of one's co-twin affect height and BMI in adulthood? A study of dizygotic adult twins from 31 cohorts

Leonie H Bogl, Aline Jelenkovic, Eero Vuoksimaa, Linda Ahrenfeldt, Kirsi H Pietilainen, Maria A Stazi, Corrado Fagnani, Cristina D'Ippolito, Yoon-Mi Hur, Hoe-Uk Jeong, Judy L Silberg, Lindon J Eaves, Hermine H Maes, Gombojav Bayasgalan, Danshiitsoodol Narandalai, Tessa L Cutler, Christian Kandler, Kerry L Jang, Kaare Christensen, Axel Skytthe

2017-04-27

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Genetic and environmental influences on adult human height across birth cohorts from 1886 to 1994

Aline Jelenkovic, Yoon-Mi Hur, Reijo Sund, Yoshie Yokoyama, Sisira H Siribaddana, Matthew Hotopf, Athula Sumathipala, Fruhling Rijsdijk, Qihua Tan, Dongfeng Zhang, Zengchang Pang, Sari Aaltonen, Kauko Heikkila, Sevgi Y Oncel, Fazil Aliev, Esther Rebato, Adam D Tarnoki, David L Tarnoki, Kaare Christensen, Axel Skytthe

2016-12-14

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The Charles Perkins Centre's Twins Research Node

Lucas C Ferreira, Jeffrey M Craig, John L Hopper, Susan E Carrick

2016-08-01

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White Matter Hyperintensities Are Under Strong Genetic Influence

Perminder S Sachdev, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Karen A Mather, David Ames, Margaret J Wright, Wei Wen

2016-06-01

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