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Lifetime socioeconomic position and twins' health: an analysis of 308 pairs of United States women twins. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2005 Important controversies exist about the extent to which people's health status as adults is shaped by their living conditions in early life compared to adulthood. These debates have important policy implications, and one obstacle to resolving them is the
Nancy Krieger +3 more
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Vertical Transmission and Discordance of Cytomegalovirus in Twin Pregnancies
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021 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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Monozygotic twins discordant for trisomy 21: Discussion of etiological events involved
Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2017 Objective: To elucidate the etiologies of discordant trisomy 21 in monozygotic twin pregnancy. Case report: A monochorionic diamniotic twin pregnancy with hydrops and cleft lip (twin 1) found in one fetus presented at gestational age of 17 weeks ...
Yao-Lung Chang +6 more
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Stem Cell Research, 2019 Despite a genetic component in the development of Parkinson’s disease (PD), monozygotic twin pairs often display discordance for PD. Here, we describe the generation of six human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines from dermal fibroblasts of three
Marija Dulovic-Mahlow +10 more
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Monozygotic twin sisters discordant for familial hemiplegic migraine [PDF]
, 2013 Background: The high concordance rate of migraine in monozygotic twin pairs has long been recognised. In the current study, we present a monozygotic twin pair discordant for familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM).
Alonso, I. +9 more
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A Genetic Aetiology for Some Common Dental Anomalies: A Pilot Twin Study
Australasian Orthodontic Journal, 1996 This pilot study investigated the aetiology of various dental anomalies. Twin-pair correlations were obtained for the total number of missing, ectopic, malformed and rotated permanent teeth which were scored from panoramic radiographs of 59 monozygotic ...
Kotsomitis Nick +2 more
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Intra-Monozygotic Twin Pair Discordance and Longitudinal Variation of Whole-Genome Scale DNA Methylation in Adults. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Monozygotic twins share identical genomic DNA and are indistinguishable using conventional genetic markers. Increasing evidence indicates that monozygotic twins are epigenetically distinct, suggesting that a comparison between DNA methylation patterns ...
Na Zhang +6 more
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Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 2017 Anorexia nervosa is a serious mental illness with marked morbidity and mortality. Twin studies on anorexia nervosa concluded that there was a higher concordance rate in monozygotic twins (56%) than in dizygotic twins (7%).
Mehmet Hamdi Orum +3 more
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A Case of Sirenomelia Associated with Hypoplastic Left Heart with a Healthy Co-Twin: A Rare Entity
Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2018 Sirenomelia is a rare developmental malformation and is incompatible to life. The incidence of sirenomelia, as recorded in the literature, is estimated to be approximately between 1.5 and 4.2 per 1,00,000 births.
Houda Nasser Al Yaqoubi +3 more
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BMC Medical Genomics, 2018 Background Moyamoya disease (MMD) is characterized by progressive stenosis of intracranial arteries in the circle of Willis with unknown etiology even after the identification of a Moyamoya susceptible gene, RNF213.
Haruto Uchino +7 more
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