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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, Muna Mubarak Al Badi, Farida Mohsin Ambu Saidi, Nasser Shaikhan Taaeeb Al Shafouri   +3 more
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Does early life health predict schooling within twin pairs? [PDF]

, 2011
A large number of studies in labor economics estimate the returns to schooling using data on monozygotic twins, under the assumption that educational attainment is random within twin pairs. This exogeneity assumption has been commonly questioned, however,
Lundborg, Petter, Nilsson, Anton, Rooth, Dan-Olof   +2 more
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Anatomical abnormalities in the brains of monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia.

New England Journal of Medicine, 1990
Recent neuroradiologic and neuropathological studies indicate that at least some patients with schizophrenia have slightly enlarged cerebral ventricles and subtle anatomical abnormalities in the region of the anterior hippocampus.
R. Suddath, G. Christison, E. Torrey, M. Casanova, D. Weinberger   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Overstated association between adolescent physical fitness and adulthood depression risk due to familial factors

Journal of Internal Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Examine the association between adolescent cardiorespiratory fitness and future risk of depression and dispensation of antidepressants, including the role of familial confounding. Methods A cohort study with sibling‐comparisons based on Swedish men who participated in mandatory military conscription examinations from 1972 to 1995 ...
Marcel Ballin, Örjan Ekblom, Anna Nordström, Viktor H. Ahlqvist, Peter Nordström   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generation and characterization of human-derived iPSC lines from three pairs of monozygotic twins discordant for Parkinson's disease

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, Agnieszka Lukomska, Sokhna Haissatou Diaw, Alexander Balck, Max Borsche, Karen Grütz, Insa Lenz, Franziska Rudolph, Katja Lohmann, Christine Klein, Philip Seibler   +10 more
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Heritability of pain catastrophizing and associations with experimental pain outcomes: a twin study [PDF]

, 2015
This study used a twin paradigm to examine genetic and environmental contributions to pain catastrophizing and the observed association between pain Catastrophizing and cold-pressor task (CPT) outcomes. Male and female monozygotic (n = 206) and dizygotic
Afari, Afari, Angst, Belfer, Boomsma, Busjahn, Crombez, Diatchenko, Finan, Gatchel, George, Goubert, Goubert, Horsham, Hur, Jensen, Karsdorp, Kato, Keefe, Kendler, Kozak, Kraljevic, Leeuw, McGue, Mogil, Nielsen, Norbury, Osman, Pavlakovic, Quartana, Rijsdijk, Seminowicz, Smeets, Stein, Strachan, Sullivan, Sullivan, Sullivan, Sullivan, Sullivan, Sullivan, Trost, Trost, Turk, Turner, Van Damme, Van Damme, Van Damme, Vassend, Verhoeven, Vervoort, Vervoort, Vervoort, Weissman-Fogel, Wilson   +54 more
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Are Wednesday's Children Full of Woe? Children's Differences in Personality Are Independent of Day of Birth

Journal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Nursery rhymes, which are rich in literary devices, benefit children's language learning. Less is known about the influence that nursery rhymes' messages may have on children's development. We focused on “Monday's Child,” a popular nursery rhyme that alleges children's day of the week of birth forecasts their differences in ...
Emily Wood, Anna Brown, Kirsty Wilding, Florence A. R. Oxley, Helen L. Fisher, Louise Arseneault, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, Sophie von Stumm   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socioeconomic Status and Sickness Absence - What do twins tell us about causality? [PDF]

The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate causal effects between socioeconomic status and absence from the workplace due to sickness. To be able to conclude that income causally affects health it is important to control for both reverse ...
Nilsson, William
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Ageing And Cancer As Diseases Of Epigenesis [PDF]

, 2009
Cancer and ageing are often said to be diseases of development. During the past fifty years, the genetic components of cancer and ageing have been intensely investigated since development, itself, was seen to be an epiphenomenon of the genome.
Gilbert, Scott F.
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Concurrence of Morgagni's Syndrome, Schizophrenia and Adenomatous Goiter in Monozygotic Twins [PDF]

, 1953
Bertha M. Aschner, Franz J. Kallmann, Leo Roizin   +2 more
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