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Obesity, EarlyView.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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Gastroenterology, 2004 BACKGROUND & AIMS There is growing evidence that the interplay of genetic susceptibility and environmental factors leads to primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC).
C. Selmi +11 more
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Lifespans of Twins : Does Zygosity Matter? [PDF]
, 2019 Studies with twins provide fundamental insights to lifespans of humans. We aim to clarify if monozygotic and dizygotic twin individuals differ in lifespan, that is, if zygosity matters.
Christensen, Kaare +6 more
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Monochorionic Diamniotic Twins with Sex Discordance: Case Series. [PDF]
Diagnostics (Basel)Background and Clinical Significance: Ultrasonographic diagnosis of twin pregnancies has become routine, with chorionicity playing a crucial role in assessing associated risks. Traditionally, monochorionic (MC) twins were believed to derive from a single
Sala V +7 more
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PROTEOMICS – Clinical Applications, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Capillary blood collection has a number of advantages over venous collection, especially in the context of increasing decentralized clinical trials and field‐based testing. No studies are available comparing venous versus capillary blood collection for proteomics measurement.
Mary Ni Lochlainn +4 more
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Application of intraoral scanner to identify monozygotic twins
BMC Oral Health, 2020 Background DNA base identification is a proper and high specificity method. However, identification could be challenged in a situation where there is no database or the DNA sequence is almost identical, as in the case of monozygotic (MZ) twins.
Botond Simon +6 more
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Aging Cell, EarlyView.The connections between epigenetic age acceleration (EAA) and the multi‐ome, as well as the extent to which these connections are driven by genetic and environmental factors, remain underexplored. We identified blood proteins, metabolites, and exposures associated with EAA in young adults and, using twin study designs, show that these associations are ...
Gabin Drouard +5 more
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On The Influence of Genetic Factors on the Formation of Homosexuality by Data of Twin Studies
Психологічне консультування i психотерапія, 2019 Results of twin studies are presented; these demonstrate that in a number of cases genetic effects can play a role of mild predisposing factors for the development of homosexuality, but the main part in its formation is accounted for by psychological and
Garnik Коcharyan
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Genetic and environmental links between self-reports and parent-reports of child personality [PDF]
, 2018 Personality ratings have been consistently found to be reliable and moderately heritable, but interrater agreement between self- and other-report of personality are low-to-moderate, particularly in childhood samples. The current study aims to examine the
Savicki, Stephanie Louise
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Genetics and Reading Disabilities
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1987 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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