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The St. Thomas' UK Adult Twin Registry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2012

Tim D. Spector  and
Alex J. MacGregor
Tim D. Spector*
Affiliation:
Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology Unit, St Thomas' Hospital, London, [email protected]
Alex J. MacGregor
Affiliation:
Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology Unit, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
*
*Address for correspondence: Tim D. Spector, Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology Unit, St Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK.

Abstract

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The Registry consists of nearly 10,000 monozygous and dizygous adult caucasian twins aged 18–80 from all over the UK and was started in 1993. This is a volunteer sample recruited by successive media campaigns without selecting for particular diseases or traits. All twins receive a series of disease questionnaires. In addition over half the twins have been assessed in detail clinically for several hundred phenotypes related to common diseases or intermediate traits. The focus has been primarily on cardiovascular, metabolic, musculoskeletal, dermatological, and opthalmological diseases. Over 3000 DZ twins have had a genome wide scan performed as well as many candidate genes allowing both linkage and association studies. The registry has led to many successful innovative research projects, particularly in common diseases previously thought to be predominantly environmental and helped positionally clone some novel genes for common diseases.

Type
Articles/United Kingdom
Information
Twin Research and Human Genetics , Volume 5 , Issue 5 , 01 October 2002 , pp. 440 - 443
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002