Twin study
The 16th International Twin Congress: Highlights from Madrid/Twin Research: Twin Study of Partner Aggression; ABO Incompatibility in Dizygotic Twins; Growth Discordance in a Monoamniotic Twin Pair; Quick Note on Twin Implantation/In the Media: Long-Lost Twins Found; NASA Twin Experiment; Twin Brothers and the Las Vegas Attack; Retired Twin Airline Pilots; Twin Film Clips
... The Bulmer Symposium, hosted once again by Cather- ine Derom (Belgium) and Nils Lambalk (Netherlands), in- cluded a series of papers on the biological bases of twin- ning. Hamdi Mbarek (Netherlands) described two ...
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Genetic epidemiology of common eye diseases: A twin study
... this twin study cannot completely exclude the fact that pigmentary disturbances o f the macula and a few (<20) hard drusen in ARM might be purely environmental in origin and not related to any genetic ...
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The Washington University Twin Study of Alcoholism
... Between 1981 and 1986, Gottesman, Carey, and colleagues at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO conducted a prospective twin study in five psychiatric treat- ment facilities in the St. ...
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Familial Resemblance in Religiousness in a Secular Society: A Twin Study
... the twin study design to facilitate assessment of the impact of genetic, shared environmental and unique environmental factors (Kendler et ...The twin study design takes ad- vantage of the ...
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The Roots of Autism and ADHD Twin Study in Sweden (RATSS)
... a twin-differences design. The Roots of Autism and ADHD Twin Study in Sweden (RATSS) is an ongoing project targeting monozygotic twins discordant for categorical or dimensional autistic and ...
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Sex differences in brain structure: a twin study on restricted and repetitive behaviors in twin pairs with and without autism
... current study are approved by the regional Ethical Re- view Board. Twin pairs are mostly recruited from the Child and Adolescent Twin Study in Sweden (CATSS [25];) based on the Autism-Tics, ...
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Heritability of Apnea of Prematurity: A Retrospective Twin Study
... retrospective twin study we used twin modeling to estimate the contribution of genetic and environ- mental influences on ...same-gender twin pairs. We found also that AOP twin correla- ...
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Brazilian Twin Registry: A Bright Future for Twin Studies/Twin Research: Twin Study of Alcohol Consumption and Mortality; Oxygen Uptake in Adolescent Twins/In the News: Superfecundated Twins In Vietnam; Adolescent Twin Relations; Twin and Triplet Co-Workers; A Special Twin Ultrasound; Monozygotic Twins With Different Skin Color; Identical Twin Returns from Space
... The detrimental effects of alcohol consumption on health are well known, but a new twin study looking at levels of drinking with reference to mortality is informative. Finnish researchers (Sipil¨a et al., ...
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A Twin Study of Perthes Disease
... this study is the limited number of twin pairs available, particularly within the monozygotic ...concordant twin pairs, which raises the theoretical possibility of there being 2 additional concordant ...
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A twin study of non-alcohol substance abuse
... One advantage of using the multiple regression approach is that year of birth can be entered as a separate variable in the equation, thus testing for the presen[r] ...
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The Twin Study of Negative Valence Emotional Constructs
... 450 twin pairs aged 9– 13 years residing in the Mid-Atlantic region around Vir- ginia and ...biometrical twin mod- eling, an unselected sample was recruited that should produce an epidemiological ...
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Minor physical anomalies in neurodevelopmental disorders: a twin study
... The twin pairs were categorized as either NDD- concordant ...one twin in pair meeting criteria for NDD diagnosis), or TD ...neither twin meeting criteria for NDD ...the study to prevent ...
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The Relationship Between Neuroticism and Inflammatory Markers: A Twin Study
... present study is in contrast with a recent study in a large Sardinian popula- tion of 4,923 individuals in which higher levels of IL-6 were associated with higher scores on neuroticism (Sutin et ...our ...
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Extended Twin Study of Alcohol Use in Virginia and Australia
... Further, there was a small but significant amount of cultural transmission, which was primarily a function of mother-to-daughter transmission. While several studies have demonstrated behavioral correlations between ...
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Genetic determinants of bone mass in adults A twin study
... The relative importance of genetic factors in determining bone mass in different parts of the skeleton is poorly understood. Lumbar spine and proximal femur bone mineral density and forearm bone mineral content were ...
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A twin study of personality, social attitudes and drinking behaviour
... 4 3.3.7.5 3.3.7.6 3.4 CHAPTER 4 Discussion 61 THE DETECTION AND RESOLUTION OF GENETIC DOMINANCE AND THE EFFECTS OF SIBLING INTERACTION 4.1 Introduction 71 4.2 Methods 72 4.3 4.2.1 The mo[r] ...
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Heritability of Cold and Heat Patterns: A Twin Study
... population-based twin samples, they estimated heritability either on the basis of a single question or RP, and it is therefore difficult to apply the results to cold–heat patterns that encompass symptoms ...
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Shame in adolesence: A twin study.
... current study, four models were tested in order to examine whether there would be any sex effects in sibling correlations for the shame measure: the first assumed non sex-specific effects and required the same ...
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Colombo Twin and Singleton Study (CoTASS): A description of a population based twin study of mental disorders in Sri Lanka
... All twins were sent information about the registry and the present study. Participants who were randomly selected were then sent a more detailed letter providing informa- tion and explaining their freedom to ...
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Musical Interests and Talent: Twin Jazz Musicians and Twin Studies/Twin Research: Loss of a Preterm Multiple; Conjoined Twin Conception; Depression in Fathers of Twins; Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome/Twin News: High-Achieving Twins; Twin Children of a Tennis Star; Conjoined Twin Separation; Twin Delivery to a Giant Panda
... Merit Twin Study (NMTS) conducted by Loehlin and Nichols ...related study included interviews with 10 Swedish MZ twin pairs discor- dant for music practice (Eriksson et ...
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