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2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Comparative study of elderly twin data from Japanese and Northern European countries: building a healthy and logevity society

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 26671010
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Gerontological nursing
Research InstitutionOsaka University

Principal Investigator

Honda Chika  大阪大学, 医学系研究科, 特任准教授(常勤) (40625498)

Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) HAYAKAWA Kazuo  三重県立看護大学, 看護学部, 教授 (70142594)
Research Collaborator KAPRIO Jaakko  ヘルシンキ大学, 医学部, Professor
SILVENTOINEN Karri  ヘルシンキ大学, 社会学部, Senior Lecturer
Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Keywords双生児研究 / 公衆衛生学 / 疫学
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Twin research is an ideal approach to understand the genetic and environmental influence on human phenotypes including health. Particularly, it enables estimation of heritability to understand the relative proportion of genetic and environmental influences. The current study investigated Japanese adult twins on physical and psychological health, and then compared it with twins from Finland and other countries. It showed how genetic and environmental influences varied as age changes.

Free Research Field

公衆衛生

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Published: 2018-03-22  

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