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Abstract Objective Personality traits such as conscientiousness and emotional stability are consistently linked with better metabolic health, but there is limited evidence on the etiology of these associations and their robustness across the life‐span. Methods Therefore, we estimated phenotypic, genetic, and unique environmental associations of traits ...
Colin D. Freilich+8 more
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Hemophilia A: An Ideal Disease for Prenatal Therapy
ABSTRACT Hemophilia A (HA) is the most common inherited coagulation defect. Current state‐of‐the‐art treatment consists of frequent administration of prophylactic infusions of coagulation factor VIII (FVIII) protein or bispecific antibodies that replace the cofactor function of FVIIIa to maintain hemostasis. However, these treatments are far from ideal,
Christopher D. Porada+2 more
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Genetics and Reading Disabilities
Psychologists and psychiatrists at the University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, UK studied the reading skills of 285 pairs of 13 year-old twins using standardized measures of intelligence ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Abstract Couple infertility is a very ancient medical condition. One of the first descriptions of familial infertility/subfertility is contained in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, written in the 10th century BC and reporting tales from the oral tradition even occurred about 800 years earlier.
Manuela Simoni+2 more
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Speech Interaction in Triads «Mother—Dizygotic Twins» at the Age of the Children 4—6 Years
The longitudinal study of mother speech interaction with 4-6-years-old dizygotic twins (n=5 triads) was performed. The characteristics of maternal speech addressed to twins, characteristics of children’ speech development due to the order of ...
A.V. Kurazhova, E.E. Lyakso
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Vertical Transmission and Discordance of Cytomegalovirus in Twin Pregnancies
ObjectiveThe objectives are to estimate the vertical transmission rate in twins relative to singleton pregnancies, to evaluate whether discordance within twin pairs is rare, and to characterize concordance within monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs in ...
Jill Hutton, Jill Hutton, Paul J. Rowan
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON NEUROMOTOR DEVELOPMENT IN TWINS [PDF]
Twins are a valuable source of observation, being considered a key instrument in scientific fields such as genetics, biology, or psychology. The literature suggests that the hereditary and environmental influences can be assessed by comparing twin ...
Bogdan A. ANTOHE
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Neonatal pyknocytosis in a preterm dizygotic twin
Infantile pyknocytosis (IP) is a rare, self-limited neonatal haemolytic anaemia that may require multiple blood transfusions. Only a little more than 50 cases have been reported in the medical literature, and the great majority of them concerns term infants.
Berardi, Alberto+6 more
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Autistic traits in childhood and post‐traumatic stress disorder as young adults: a cohort study
Background Despite the higher prevalence of childhood traumatic experiences and post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in autistic adults, research on trauma‐related psychopathology and autistic traits in young people is lacking. This study examined if high autistic traits in childhood predispose individuals to traumatic experiences, the development of ...
Alice M.G. Quinton+6 more
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A Twin Study of Genetic Contributions to Hippocampal Morphology in Schizophrenia
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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