Dear Gorge,
You should use a Cox model with a frailty term modeling the intrasubject
correlation within the twin-pairs.
Literature:
Hougaard. Analysis of Multivariate Survival Data. (2000). Springer, New
York.
Therneau & Grambsch: Modeling Survival Data. Extending the Cox Model (2000).
Springer. New York.
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