Twin Database of the Secondary School Attached to the Faculty of Education of the University of Tokyo. (23rd December 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ooki, Syuichi
• Editors: Hur, Yoon-Mi; Bogl, Leonie H.; Ordoñana, Juan R.; Taylor, Jeanette; Hart, Sara A.; Tuvblad, Catherine; Ystrom, Eivind; Dalgård, Christine; Skytthe, Axel; Willemsen, Gonneke
• Is Part Of: Twin research and human genetics. Volume 22:Number 6(2019)
• Page Start: 583
• Page End: 587
• Publication Date: 2019-12-23
• Subjects: longitudinal twin data, -- life course epidemiology, -- developmental origins of health and disease hypothesis; Twins -- Periodicals; Multiple birth -- Periodicals; 618.25
• DOI: 10.1017/thg.2019.68
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1832-4274

Abstract

Abstract: This article profiles the historical twin databases of the secondary education school attached to the Faculty of Education at the University of Tokyo. The school was established in 1948. Every year, about 50 pairs of twins of all sex and zygosity combinations, aged 11–12 years, take an examination, and about 10–20 pairs are admitted based on the results. Three datasets exist: one for applicants (11–12 years old), one for junior and senior high school students (12–18 years old) and one for graduates (18–85 years old). Linking the records from these three databases should facilitate several important research projects, for example, life course genetic epidemiologic studies and the verification of the so-called developmental origins of health and disease hypothesis.