STUDY OF INHERITANCE OF SOME DAILY LIFE HABITS
STUDY OF INHERITANCE OF SOME DAILY LIFE HABITS
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DOI:
10.1038/hdy.1962.36
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发表时间:
1962-01-01
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影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
CHIARELLI, B
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作者:
CONTERIO, F;CHIARELLI, B
An enquiry was carried out to ascertain if differences in smoking, alcohol- and coffee-drinking habits have been influenced to any important extent by hereditary factors. For this purpose, information about the smoking and drinking habits of 77 pairs of adult male twins of Parma, Pavia and Florence were collected. The analyses were based on the answers of 34 pairs of MZ twins and 43 pairs of DZ twins. Diagnosis of zygosity was based on blood groups, photographs, and fingerprints. A discriminant has been calculated giving the best combination of anthropometrical measurements. The twins were classified as like and unlike in their smoking, alcohol- and coffee-drinking habits. Factors (age, proximity of residence, satisfaction with the twin status) which might have affected the representativeness of the data are considered. There is more concordance of smoking and coffee-drinking habits in monozygotic than in dizygotic twins. Concordance is also apparent but not statistically significant in respect of alcohol consumption habits.