Swedish Twin Registry

Infrastructure

    Infrastructure Details

    Acronym

    STR

    Name of national/international infrastructure this infrastructure belongs to

    The national infrastructure for the Swedish Twin Registry is managed by Karolinska Institutet. And located at Karolinska Institutet. https://ki.se/node/9289

    Description

    The Swedish Twin Registry is the largest of its kind and has become an invaluable resource for medical research. The Registry was established in the 1960s and contains information about some 87 000 twin pairs for which zygosity is known, both mono- and dizygotic pairs. Kristina Sundquist at Center for Primary Health Care Research (CPF) at Lund University has a pseudonymized snapshot of some variables from the Swedish Twin Registry.

    Equipment and resources

    Windows server for SAS analysis.

    Digital and physical collections

    One SAS dataset with Twin ID, Twin Pair ID and Zygosity.

    Services provided

    KI uses a web based application routine for all core facilities (also for Lund University). Please see specific instructions for the Twin Registry on this page. Please see https://ki.se/en/research/swedish-twin-registry-for-researchers

    Management of the infrastructure

    The infrastructure at Karolinska Institutet is well described at https://ki.se/en/research/infrastructure-and-resources-for-research

    Subject classification (UKÄ)

    • Medical and Health Sciences

    Type of infrastructure

    • Digital collections
    • Equipment

    Infrastructure programme

    • Infrastructure of national interest (Swedish Research Council)