"Twin Studies as Topic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Works about methods of detecting genetic etiology in human traits. The basic premise of twin studies is that monozygotic twins carry identical genes, while zygotic twins are genetically no more similar than two siblings born after separate pregnancies. (Last, J.M., A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)
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D018433
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.760.900 N05.715.360.775.750 N06.850.520.450.900
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Twin Studies as Topic" by people in Profiles.
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Unraveling the genetics of autoimmunity. Cell. 2010 Mar 19; 140(6):791-7.
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Reformulating and simplifying the DF analysis model. Behav Genet. 2005 Mar; 35(2):211-7.