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• Biological clocks and physical functioning in monozygotic female twins 

  Sillanpää, Elina; Laakkonen, Eija; Vaara, Elina; Rantanen, Taina; Kovanen, Vuokko; Sipilä, Sarianna; Kaprio, Jaakko; Ollikainen, Miina (BioMed Central Ltd., 2018)

  Background: Biomarkers of biological aging – DNA methylation age (DNAm age) and leukocyte telomere length (LTL)– correlate strongly with chronological age across the life course. It is, however, unclear how these measures ...

• Physical activity and health : Findings from Finnish monozygotic twin pairs discordant for physical activity 

  Kujala, Urho M.; Leskinen, Tuija; Rottensteiner, Mirva; Aaltonen, Sari; Ala‐Korpela, Mika; Waller, Katja; Kaprio, Jaakko (Wiley, 2022)

  Genetic and early environmental differences including early health habits associate with future health. To provide insight on the causal nature of these associations, monozygotic (MZ) twin pairs discordant for health habits ...

• The effect of leisure-time physical activity discordance on the adipokine profile of twin pairs : with special reference to leptin, visfatin and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 

  Sihvola, Maria (2012)

• The role of heredity, other constitutional structural and behavioral factors in back function tests 

  Ropponen, Annina (Jyväskylän yliopisto, 2006)

  The objectives were 1) to determine the reliability of the measures of back function related factors, 2) to investigate the possibilities to detect changes in paraspinal muscles, and 3) to study the relative effects of ...

• Mental, Physical and Social Functioning in Independently Living Senior House Residents and Community-Dwelling Older Adults 

  Lahti, Anna-Maria; Mikkola, Tuija M.; Salonen, Minna; Wasenius, Niko; Sarvimäki, Anneli; Eriksson, Johan G.; von Bonsdorff, Mikaela B. (MDPI AG, 2021)

  Senior houses provide social interaction and support, potentially supporting older people’s physical and mental functioning. Few studies have investigated functioning of senior house residents. The aim was to compare ...