Twins, The
Twin Reunions: The Science Behind the Fascination/Twin Research Reports: Altitude and Hypoxia; Twin Pregnancy Outcomes; Space Mission/Media Highlights: Chinese Twins Reunited; Twin Loss Discovered; Hidden Twins; Twin Euthanasia; Twin Savior
... these twins, I also indicated that they offered a novel test of Einstein’s 1905 twins paradox — that time would pass more slowly for the space-bound twin than for his earth-bound ...Duke twins pro- ...
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Highlights from the 15th International Congress of Twin Studies/Twin Research: Differentiating MZ Co-twins Via SNPs; Mistaken Infant Twin-Singleton Hospital Registration; Narcolepsy With Cataplexy; Hearing Loss and Language Learning/Media Mentions: Broadway Musical Recalls Conjoined Hilton Twins; High Fashion Pair; Twins Turn 102; Insights From a Conjoined Twin Survivor
... the twins. First, the twins’ zygosity and parent-child paternity were confirmed by standard ...the twins could have been identified as the father.) Then, DNA from the twins’ sperm sample and ...
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Zygosity Diagnosis: When Physicians and DNA Disagree/Twin Research: Sex-Discordant Chimeric Twins; Unrelated Bone Marrow Transplantation in Infant Twins With Congenital Amegakaryotic Thrombocytopenia; Twin Study of Attractiveness to Mosquitoes; Twins Coping With Crisis/Media Highlights: The Less Favored Twin; Paternity Issues; Twins With Late-Onset Tay-Sachs Disease; Triplets at MIT
... about twins’ zy- gosity do not affect their behavioral resemblance (Kendler et ...the twins’ similarities than their dif- ...fraternal twins, the girls might compare themselves with one another, ...
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The Rare Sides of Twin Research: Important to Remember/Twin Research Reviews: Representation of Self-Image; Twins With Kleine–Levin Syndrome; Heteropaternal Lemur Twins; Risk of Dental Caries/In the Media: High-Society Models; ‘Winkelevii’ Super Bowl Twins; Multiple Birth × Three; Twin Sister Surrogate; A Presidential Twin?
... Twin research is a vibrant and informative undertaking that has yielded a wealth of vital information regarding factors affecting behavioral traits (e.g., intelligence, personality and interests), physical measures ...
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Remembering Irving I. Gottesman: Twin Research Colleague and Friend Extraordinaire/Research Studies: Face-Lift Technique Comparison in Identical Twins; Raising Preterm Twins; Fetal Behavior in Dichorionic Twin Pregnancies; Co-Bedding and Stress Reduction in Twins/Public Interest: Identical Co-Twins’ Same Day Delivery; Teaching Twins in Bosnia; Twin Auctioneers; Sister, the Play
... co-bedding twins was inspired by the idea that twins’ postnatal adaptation would be enhanced by continued physical contact with their ...co-bedding twins include short-term (but not long-term) growth ...
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Twin Research and the Arts: Interconnections / Twin Research: Twin Studies of Sexual Orientation; A Historical Biological Twin Gem; GWAS Approach to Who Has Twins / Newsworthy: Twins on College Campuses; ‘Brainprint’: Personal Identification by Brain Waves
... The different findings between studies that used the two approaches to data collection are illustrative. Median cor- relations across studies yielded correlations of 0.52 (MZ) and 0.17 (DZ) for studies using targeted ...
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Twins Reared Apart and Twins in Families: The Findings Behind the Fascination
... female twins were from opposite-sex twin pairs) completed a Social Closeness Survey, mostly online, although a minority of participants from the annual Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio completed a ...
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THE RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN TWINS, A STATISTICAL EXAMINATION OF LAUTERBACH'S MEASUREMENTS
... It is still possible that the correlation for twins of mixed sex will be less than that of fraternal twins of the same sex, for factors affecting early or late maturity wi[r] ...
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Risk of epilepsy in opposite-sex and same-sex twins: a twin cohort study
... Danish twins born in 1977–2009 with almost complete ...OS twins, which are dizygotic twins, the ideal reference group is the SS di- zygotic twins ...of twins with unknown zygosity among ...
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Oliver Sacks: Our Correspondence About Twins/Twin Research: Vanishing Twins Syndrome; Discordant Sex in MZ Twins; Pregnancy Outcomes in IVF and ICSI Conceived Twins/Print and Media: Superfetated Twins; Twins Discordant for Smoking; Twins in Fashion; Yale University Twin Hockey Players; Conjoined Twin–Visiting Professor
... ‘The Twins’. The identi- cal twins in questions, John and Michael, were 26-year-old autistic ...the twins’ injurious communication with one another, a decision that cost them their remarkable mental ...
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Diagnosing Zygosity in Giant Panda Twins Using Short Tandem Repeats
... panda twins living in the captive population of Wolong (243 pan- das in total by the end of 2016): 25 pigeon pairs and 20 same-sex ...same-sex twins (the missing two pairs were exhibited in other zoos ...
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Perinatal outcomes in Finnish twins: a retrospective study
... Advancements in antenatal and neonatal care have re- sulted in very low and declining PNM and early neonatal mortality rates in Finnish twins. Perinatal morbidity and mortality remain higher for twin B, ...
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Evidence for No Significant Impact of Müllerian Anomalies on Reproductive Outcomes of Twin Pregnancy in Korean Women
... Comparing baseline characteristics of the patients with MA and twin pregnancy between two studies, the rates of IVF pregnancy were higher in the Fox et al. (2014) study than in ours (76.5% vs. 64.7%), and while the Fox ...
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Epigenetic signature of preterm birth in adult twins
... Among the three less significant DMRs in Table 2, the last one on chromosome 5 is replicated by a similar pat- tern in the old twins (Fig. 5f). The CpGs in this region are hypermethylated in the promotor region ...
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Centenary Celebration for Scottish Missionary Mary Slessor: A Lasting Legacy for Twins/Twin Research: Twins With Kleinfelter's Syndrome; Twin Research on Atopic Diseases; Twin Study of Autism; Psychotherapy with Twins / General Interest: Female Twin Pole-Vaulters; Longest Twin Birth Interval; Pair of Franco-Cuban Vocalists; Croatian Twin Models
... newborn twins and their mothers from death and disownment by members of their community, including their families, who believed twins harbored evil ...
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TWINNING MECHANISMS IN NON-MODULATED NI-MN-GA
... boundary motion produces a large strain, fully within the martensitic state of an MSMA. On the microscopic scale, twins grow and shrink by the movement of dislocations located in steps of the twin boundary ...
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Recognition of identical twins using fusion of various facial feature extractors
... identical twins in 2010 [14] showed that the multimodal biometric systems which combine different instances of the the same biomet- ric traits lead to perfect matching compared with the unimodal ...
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Twins in School
... of twins who participated in this ...the twins were more liked or disliked by their ...that twins who were rejected by peers and had a poor teacher-child relationship in kindergarten tended to do ...
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Intussusception in Twins
... Repeated episodes of bleeding into the spinal fluid or mixing of hemorrhagic spinal fluid and systemic blood at the time of lumbar puncture might suggest that the initial bleeding episod[r] ...
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Organ Composition in Newborn Parabiotic Twins with Speculation Regarding Neonatal Hypoglycemia
... The reduced size of fetal adrenal cortex in donor twins is due almost entirely to decreased cytoplasmic mass of individual parenchymal cells. Values for donor twins are given in percent [r] ...
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