Are twins and singletons comparable? A study of disease-related and lifestyle characteristics in adult women.

Fetal origins of coronary heart disease

1995 • 3,440 citations

Fetal nutrition and cardiovascular disease in adult life

1993 • 2,688 citations

Fetal and infant origins of adult disease

2001 • 1,050 citations

Fetal origins of adult disease---the hypothesis revisited

1999 • 812 citations

A twin-pronged attack on complex traits

1997 • 695 citations

Genetic influences on osteoarthritis in women: a twin study

1996 • 689 citations

Statistics in human genetics

1997 • 568 citations

Genetic Influences on Muscle Strength, Lean Body Mass, and Bone Mineral Density: A Twin Study

1997 • 412 citations

A test of the equal-environment assumption in twin studies of psychiatric illness

1993 • 406 citations

Role of the prenatal environment in the development of obesity

1998 • 365 citations

Genes Control the Cessation of a Woman’s Reproductive Life: A Twin Study of Hysterectomy and Age at Menopause¹

1998 • 350 citations

Mortality among twins after age 6: fetal origins hypothesis versus twin method

1995 • 296 citations

Twin studies in medical research: can they tell us whether diseases are genetically determined?

1993 • 245 citations

Volunteer bias in twin research: The rule of two‐thirds

1978 • 220 citations

Recruitment bias in twin research: The rule of two-thirds reconsidered

1987 • 182 citations

Ischaemic heart disease and low birth weight: a test of the fetal-origins hypothesis from the Swedish Twin Registry

1994 • 164 citations

Association between birth weight and adult blood pressure in twins: historical cohort study

1999 • 163 citations

Twins

2000 • 155 citations

Prevalence of vertebral fracture in women and the relationship with bone density and symptoms: The chingford study

1993 • 149 citations

Twins and maternal smoking: ordeals for the fetal origins hypothesis? A cohort study

1999 • 129 citations

Cigarette smoking and risk of osteoarthritis in women in the general population: the Chingford study.

1993 • 116 citations

Twin registers in Europe: an overview

1998 • 111 citations

Heritability of Central Systolic Pressure Augmentation

2000 • 111 citations

Selection Bias in Samples of Older Twins?

1997 • 70 citations

Twin Study: Relationship between Birth Weight, Zygosity, Placentation, and Pathologic Placental Changes

1988 • 68 citations

Concordance of ischemic heart disease in the NHLBI twin study after 14–18 years of follow-up

1991 • 46 citations

Representativeness of a roster of volunteer North American twins with chronic disease

2000 • 29 citations

Selection Bias in Disease-Related Twin Studies — Data on 11,154 Adult Finnish Twin Pairs from a Nationwide Panel

1990 • 11 citations