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dizygotic twins - Two-egg twins, i.e. a pair of individuals that shared the same uterus at the same time, but which arose from separate and independent fertilization of two ova. [FAO]

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Kid's food aversion in the genes?  -  Aug 9, 2007
FoodNavigator.com,For the new study, Cooke and co-workers studied 1913 pairs of identical (monozygotic) and 3477 pairs of non-identical (dizygotic) twins to investigate how

Linkage of Genes to Total Lean Body Mass in Normal Women  -  Aug 6, 2007
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism,A genome-wide linkage analysis was performed on the dizygotic twins using a modified version of the Haseman-Elston method. Results: Age, body height,

Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health ...  -  Aug 1, 2007
British Journal of Psychiatry (subscription),For example, de novo meiotic mutations (in the parental germline) increase disease concordance among monozygotic but not dizygotic twins.

Old Suspects Found Guilty — The First Genome Profile of Multiple ...  -  Jul 29, 2007
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription),...twins of nearly 30%; siblings or dizygotic twins have a risk of 2%, still higher than the risk of 0.1% in the average Northern European population.

Parental Diagnoses in Youth With Narrow Phenotype Bipolar Disorder ...  -  Aug 1, 2007
Am J Psychiatry (subscription)The concordance of bipolar disorder in monozygotic twins is 0.67–0.85, reflecting substantially greater concordance than in dizygotic twins or siblings (4).




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