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Utilizing twins as controls for non-twin case-materials in genome wide association studies. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Twin registries around the globe have collected DNA samples from large numbers of monozygotic and dizygotic twins. The twin sample collections are frequently used as controls in disease-specific studies together with non-twins.
Andrea Ganna +9 more
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Prevention of multiple pregnancy
Middle East Fertility Society Journal, 2010 Monozygotic twins are two individuals derived from one sperm and one egg; dizygotic twins are individuals born together but originating from different eggs fertilized by different sperms.
P.G. Crosignani
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A. R. Luria and the Twin Method in Modern Medical Genetics [PDF]
, 2018 The twin method is one of the classical methods of medical genetics which aids in defining the role of factors of heredity and environment in traits of norm and pathology, to study development of multifactorial diseases and development of genetics of ...
Tskhovrebova, L
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Social Comparison Orientation in Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twins [PDF]
Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2017 Twin research has offered evidence that monozygotic (MZ) twins are more socially close than dizygotic (DZ) twins, but has not paid much attention to the way twins compare themselves with their co-twin. The few studies in this area suggest that ‘horizontal comparisons’ (social comparison motivated by solidarity or communion with others) matter more for ...
Huguet, Pascal +4 more
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Preverbal Language Abilities in Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twins [PDF]
, 2007 This study examined prelinguistic language development of twins by delineating: differences from developmental expectations; twin-twin communication and twin-mother communication differences; and monozygotic-dizygotic differences.
Albrecht, Sara
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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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Maltreatment-associated neurodevelopmental disorders: a co-twin control analysis [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Childhood maltreatment (CM) is strongly associated with psychiatric disorders in childhood and adulthood. Previous findings suggest that the association between CM and psychiatric disorders is partly causal and partly due to familial ...
Dinkler, Lisa +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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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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The control of ovulation in mothers of dizygotic twins. [PDF]
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 1996 Dizygotic twinning is familial, suggesting that there may be an inherited abnormality of the control of ovulation that predisposes to double ovulation and, therefore, dizygotic twins. The present study examines 17 mothers of dizygotic twins (MODZT) and 8 control mothers of singletons by daily blood sampling throughout an entire menstrual cycle.
Gilfillan, CP +5 more
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