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A Twin Study of Genetic Contributions to Hippocampal Morphology in Schizophrenia
Neurobiology of Disease, 2002 Our goal was to establish whether altered hippocampal morphology represents a trait marker for genetic vulnerability in schizophrenia. We outlined the hippocampi on high-resolution MR images obtained from matched samples of control and discordant ...
Katherine L. Narr +13 more
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Molar incisor hypomineralisation: current knowledge and practice
International Dental Journal, EarlyView., 2020 Background Molar incisor hypomineralisation (MIH) is a common developmental dental condition that presents in childhood. Areas of poorly formed enamel affect one or more first permanent molars and can cause opacities on the anterior teeth. MIH presents a variety of challenges for the dental team as well as functional and social impacts for affected ...
Helen D. Rodd +4 more
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Discordant phenotypes in twins with infantile nystagmus
Scientific Reports, 2021 Infantile nystagmus (IN) may result from aetiologies including albinism and FRMD7 mutations. IN has low prevalence, and twins with IN are rare. Whilst discordant presentation has been previously reported for IN, we present for the first time the ...
Abdullah Aamir +12 more
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Inheritance in Human Dizygotic Twinning [PDF]
New England Journal of Medicine, 1964 THIS paper is concerned with the question of whether the father plays any part in the occurrence of twins among his children.
White, Colin, Wyshak, Grace
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Risk of psychiatric disorders among the surviving twins after a co-twin loss
eLife, 2020 Losing a co-twin by death is a severely stressful event yet with unknown impact on the surviving twin’s risk of psychiatric disorders. We identified all Swedish-born twins who lost a co-twin by death between 1973 and 2013 (n = 4,528), their 4939 non-twin
Huan Song +6 more
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Twinning rate trend in a population sample from the city of São Paulo, Brazil
Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2003 A retrospective study was carried out on a sample consisting of 89,491 deliveries occurred from 1979 through 1998, in the city of São Paulo, SP, Brazil. These deliveries included 935 twin and 26 triplet births. The mean incidence per 1,000 deliveries was
Gloria M.D.D. Colletto
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VALIDATION OF ZYGOSITY ASSESSMENT BY A SELF-REPORT QUESTIONNAIRE IN A SAMPLE OF ADULT SERBIAN TWINS
Primenjena Psihologija, 2019 Validation of a twin zygosity-estimating questionnaire, The Questionnaire of Twins’ Physical Resemblance, created by Oniszczenko et al. and used in European and Serbian twin studies, was carried out on a sample of 222 pairs (176 monozygotic, 46 dizygotic)
Petar Čolović +2 more
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Epigenetic discrimination of Lebanese monozygotic and dizygotic twins: Summarized notes in a single paper [PDF]
International Research Journal of Science, Technology, Education, and Management, 2021 Monozygotic twins’ differentiation is worldwide limited due to the fact that they share the same genotype. For forensic purposes, many studies involving monozygotic twins were accomplished.
Paula Romanos, Jamilah Borjac
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Novel BEST1 mutation in autosomal recessive bestrophinopathy in Japanese siblings
Taiwan Journal of Ophthalmology, 2021 PURPOSE: Autosomal recessive bestrophinopathy (ARB) is a disease that results from the mutations in the BEST1 gene. It is characterized by multifocal yellowish lipofuscin deposits, cystoid macular edema, and subretinal fluid.
Rika Yamada +4 more
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Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2014 Twins are two independent babies delivered during the same pregnancy and are divided as monozygotic or dizygotic based on their origin. Dizygotic twins are similar to two siblings and have different genetic information.
K. V. S. Hari Kumar, K D Modi
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