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Associations between birth size and later height from infancy through adulthood : an individual based pooled analysis of 28 twin cohorts participating in the CODATwins project [PDF]

, 2018
Background: There is evidence that birth size is positively associated with height in later life, but it remains unclear whether this is explained by genetic factors or the intrauterine environment.
Abramson, Lior, Almqvist, Catarina, Bartels, Meike, Bayasgalan, Gombojav, Bjerregaard-Andersen, Morten, Boivin, Michel, Boomsma, Dorret I, Brandt, Ingunn, Brendgen, Mara, Brescianini, Sonia, Burt, S Alexandra, Corley, Robin P, Craig, Jeffrey M, Cutler, Tessa L, Derom, Catherine, Dionne, Ginette, Dubois, Lise, Fagnani, Corrado, Fisher, Abigail, Harris, Jennifer R, Haworth, Claire MA, Heikkila, Kauko, Hopper, John L, Huibregtse, Brooke M, Hur, Yoon-Mi, Jelenkovic, Aline, Ji, Fuling, Kaprio, Jaakko, Kim, Jina, Klump, Kelly L, Knafo-Noam, Ariel, Krueger, Robert F, Lee, Jooyeon, Lee, Sooji, Llewellyn, Clare H, Loos, Ruth JF, Magnusson, Patrik KE, Mankuta, David, McGue, Matt, Narandalai, Danshiitsoodol, Nelson, Tracy L, Nielsen, Henning Beck, Nilsen, Thomas Sevenius, Ning, Feng, Ooki, Syuichi, Pahlen, Shandell, Pang, Zengchang, Pietilainen, Kirsi H, Plomin, Robert, Rasmussen, Finn, Rebato, Esther, Saffery, Richard, Saudino, Kimberly J, Silventoinen, Karri, Sodemann, Morten, Sorensen, Thorkild IA, Stazi, Maria A, Sund, Reijo, Sung, Joohon, Tarnoki, Adam D, Tarnoki, David L, Tynelius, Per, Ullemar, Vilhelmina, van Beijsterveld, Catharina EM, Vitaro, Frank, Vlietinck, Robert F, Whitfield, Keith E, Willemsen, Gonneke, Yokoyama, Yoshie   +68 more
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Investigating Genetic and Environmental Substrates of the Relationship between Positive Mental Health and Biological Aging—A Study Protocol

Brain Sciences, 2023
Background: The Italian National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità) funded a 30-month project (July 2021–January 2024) to conduct a twin study of the relationships between Positive Mental Health (PMH) and cellular longevity.
Francesca Marcon, Miriam Salemi, Cristina D’Ippolito, Angelo Picardi, Virgilia Toccaceli, Lorenza Nisticò, Sabrina Alviti, Ester Siniscalchi, Francesca Salani, Giorgia Maria Varalda, Emanuela Medda, Corrado Fagnani   +11 more
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Narcissism predicts impulsive buying: phenotypic and genetic evidence

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
Impulsive buying makes billions of dollars for retail businesses every year, particularly in an era of thriving e-commerce. Narcissism, characterized by impulsivity and materialism, may serve as a potential antecedent to impulsive buying.
Huajian eCai, Yuanyuan eShi, Xiang eFang, Yu eLuo   +3 more
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Phenomenology of The Left-Right Twin Higgs Model [PDF]

, 2007
The twin Higgs mechanism has recently been proposed to solve the little hierarchy problem. We study the implementation of the twin Higgs mechanism in left-right models.
G. Abbiendi, Hock-Seng Goh, M. Sani, Shufang Su   +3 more
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Associations of Metabolic/Obesity Phenotypes with Insulin Resistance and C-Reactive Protein: Results from the CNTR Study

Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity, 2021
Chunxiao Liao,1 Wenjing Gao,1 Weihua Cao,1 Jun Lv,1 Canqing Yu,1 Shengfeng Wang,1 Zengchang Pang,2 Liming Cong,3 Hua Wang,4 Xianping Wu,5 Liming Li1 1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing ...
Liao C, Gao W, Cao W, Lv J, Yu C, Wang S, Pang Z, Cong L, Wang H, Wu X, Li L   +10 more
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Case Report: A Case Study on the Neurodevelopmental Profile of a Child With Pallister–Killian Syndrome and His Unaffected Twin

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022
Pallister–Killian syndrome is an uncommon genetic disorder that has broad developmental and multisystemic effects. While medical complications are widely reported throughout the literature, research on the neurodevelopmental profile has been limited ...
Carole A. Samango-Sprouse, Carole A. Samango-Sprouse, Carole A. Samango-Sprouse, Mary P. Hamzik, Kenneth Rosenbaum, Kosar Khaksari, Francie Mitchell, Ritika Kommareddi, Michaela R. Brooks, Elizabeth Tipton, Teresa Sadeghin, Andrea L. Gropman, Andrea L. Gropman   +12 more
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Genetics of Obesity Traits: A Bivariate Genome-Wide Association Analysis

Frontiers in Genetics, 2018
Previous genome-wide association studies on anthropometric measurements have identified more than 100 related loci, but only a small portion of heritability in obesity was explained. Here we present a bivariate twin study to look for the genetic variants
Yili Wu, Haiping Duan, Haiping Duan, Xiaocao Tian, Chunsheng Xu, Chunsheng Xu, Weijing Wang, Wenjie Jiang, Zengchang Pang, Dongfeng Zhang, Qihua Tan, Qihua Tan   +11 more
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Parapharyngeal Fat Tissue Accumulation and Its Association with Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Discordant Twin Pairs

Applied Sciences, 2023
Background: Recurrent upper airway obstruction during sleep is a common feature of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Risk factors for the development of OSA include obesity, male gender and smoking.
Zsofia Jokkel, Marcell Szily, Marton Piroska, Helga Szabó, Anita Hernyes, Gergely Szabó, Ildikó Kalina, Pál Maurovich-Horvat, David Laszlo Tarnoki, Adam Domonkos Tarnoki   +9 more
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The utility of twins in developmental cognitive neuroscience research: How twins strengthen the ABCD research design [PDF]

, 2018
The ABCD twin study will elucidate the genetic and environmental contributions to a wide range of mental and physical health outcomes in children, including substance use, brain and behavioral development, and their interrelationship.
Banich, Marie T, Barch, Deanna M, Bjork, James M, Heath, Andrew C, Hewitt, John K, Iacono, William G, Luciana, Monica M, Madden, Pamela A, Neale, Michael C   +8 more
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Nature of individual difference in liability to depression in Russian adolescents [PDF]

Psychology in Russia: State of Art, 2012
The Influence of genetic and environmental factors on liability to depression inRussian teenage sample was investigated. 196 twin pairs aged 13 to 17 (M=15,2)from Moscow, Izhevsk and Bishkek took part in the survey.
Sergey B. Malykh, Elena Z. Sabirova, Alexandra P. Belova   +2 more
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