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Neurodevelopmental conditions and adaptive functioning – a co‐twin control study

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Challenges in adaptive or daily functioning are inherent to diagnostic criteria for neurodevelopmental conditions (NDCs). However, less is known regarding the influence of factors that may confound the association between NDCs and adaptive functioning.
Johan Isaksson, Filippa Eklund, Karl Lundin Remnélius, Melissa H. Black, Sven Bölte   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discordance of cardiovascular abnormalities in a monozygotic twin pair carrying a class II 1q21.1 microdeletion

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2020
Objective: We present the prenatal diagnosis of a class II 1q21.1 microdeletion in monozygotic (MZ) twins with discordant phenotypes. Case report: A monochorionic diamniotic twin pair presented with discordant ultrasound anomalies; twin A had ...
Shan-shan Shi, Shao-bin Lin, Dan-lei Cai, Wang-rong Wen, Rui-man Li   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The nature and nurture of primary and secondary callous–unemotional traits: evidence from two independent twin samples

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Callous–unemotional (CU) traits identify youth with more severe and chronic trajectories of conduct problems. However, the etiology of CU traits may be heterogeneous, undermining the search for effective treatments. The level of co‐occurring anxiety has been used to identify “primary” (lower anxiety) versus “secondary” (higher anxiety ...
Rachel C. Tomlinson, Patrizia Pezzoli, Essi Viding, Stephane A. De Brito, Kelly L. Klump, S. Alexandra Burt, Luke W. Hyde   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
core   +1 more source

Multivariate maternal effects across the internalizing–externalizing spectrum in childhood: results from the Norwegian mother, father, and child cohort study

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background From a functionalist perspective, parenting behaviors have adaptive functions and are partly expressions of genetic variation. Maternal genes that have effects on children are often referred to as indirect maternal genetic effects. Indirect genetic effects provide a means for measuring the role of parenting without the need for specifying ...
Espen Moen Eilertsen, Nikolai Haahjem Eftedal, Rosa Cheesman, Ziada Ayorech, Joakim Coleman Ebeltoft, Hans Fredrik Sunde, Anneli Desiré Tandberg, Fartein Ask Torvik, Eivind Ystrom   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trigger Twins: 2 Cases of Ipsilateral Twin Trigger Digit and a Review of Published Literature

Case Reports in Orthopedics, 2019
Background. The aetiology of trigger digits has been debated since Notta first described them in 1850. Aetiology has been segregated for adult and paediatric presentations. While an adult trigger digit is most likely an acquired inflammatory process, the
David Brinkman, Gerard Sheridan, Michael O’Sullivan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Serum lipids and serum uric acid in human twins

Journal of Lipid Research, 1965
This report describes a study of serum total cholesterol, free cholesterol, glyceride glycerol, total phospholipids, and uric acid in human twins and is presented in three sections.Section 1 presents evidence that interpair variance of free cholesterol ...
Julius Jensen, David H. Blankenhorn, H.P. Chin, Phillip Sturgeon, Arnold G. Ware   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Outcome of two pairs of monozygotic twins with pleuropulmonary blastoma: case report

Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2020
Background Pleuropulmonary blastomas (PPB) are rare aggressive paediatric lung malignancies and are among the most common DICER1-related disorders: it is estimated that 75–80% of children with a PPB have the DICER1 mutation.
Shihan Zhang, Xisi Wang, Sihui Li, Siyu Cai, Tong Yu, Libing Fu, Na Zhang, Xiaoxia Peng, Qi Zeng, Xiaoli Ma   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Increased expression and altered methylation of HERVWE1 in the human placentas of smaller fetuses from monozygotic, dichorionic, discordant twins. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
BACKGROUND: The human endogenous retroviral family W, Env(C7), member 1 gene (HERVWE1) is thought to participate in trophoblast cell fusion, and its expression is diminished in the placentas of singleton intrauterine growth-retarded pregnancies. However,
Yu Gao, Zhiming He, Zilian Wang, Yanmin Luo, Hongyu Sun, Yi Zhou, Linhuan Huang, Manchao Li, Qun Fang, Shiwen Jiang   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source