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'Biracial'-Looking Twins: A New Twin Type?/Twin Research: Twins with Cystic Teratomas; Sleep Quality and Body Mass Index; Previable Membrane Rupture/Print and Online Reports: Twins Born to a Sister Surrogate; NASA Twin Study; African-Cosmopolitan Tw

scientific article published on 28 March 2017

A Possible Twin: The 1960s Twin Study Revisited/Twin Research: Twin-to-Twin Heart Transplantation; Distinguishing Monozygotic Twins; Twin Conceptions via Oocyte Donation; Factors Affecting Craniofacial Traits/In the Media: Triplet Delivery in the UK

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

A Repeated Grammatical Error Does Not Make it Right

Art for twins: Yorùbá artists and their statues/twin research studies: twins' education and conceptions; diurnal preference; inherited eye diseases; ultrasound counseling when twins are conjoined/popular twin reports: twin sisters (the film); rare p

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Between twins; research summaries; in the real world

scientific article published on December 2003

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

scientific article published on 28 April 2016

COVID-19: Twin Research in Progress/Twin Research Reviews: Asthmatic and Nonasthmatic Twins; Stanford University Study of Anal Prints; Twin Mammals and COVID-19; Twin Delivery and the Three 'Rs'/Mixed Media: The Rainman Twins - The Film; Twins Irish

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

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

scientific article published on 24 April 2015

Chimeric dizygotic twins: implications for development and disease

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Classic, Provocative and/or Influential: A Twin Study Sampler/Twin Research Reviews: Twin Pregnancies With and Without Polycystic Ovary Syndrome; Ectopic Twin Pregnancy; Sex Differences in Cognition; Maternal Cardiac Hemodynamics/Newsworthy: Presiden

scientific article published on 15 April 2018

Closing Remarks-A Twin Research Legacy

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Co-Twin Control Studies: Natural Events, Experimental Interventions and Rare Happenings/Twin Research: Cancer Risk in Overweight Twins; Prognosis After Fetal Loss of One Twin; Twin Concordance for Parkinson's Disease; Neuroanatomy of Musically Disco

scientific article published on 09 July 2019

Co-twin controls: facioplasty / twin research reviews: congenital anomalies; personality and coital orgasmic infrequency; physical activity participation / newsworthy: twins, triplets and quads; school legislation update; premature twins in court

scientific article published in August 2008

College-age twins: university admission policies / twin research: birth weight and neuromotor performance; transfusion syndrome markers; vanishing twins and fetal sex determination; mz twin discordance for wilson's disease / media: big at birth; pla

scientific article published on 21 October 2014

Comment on “Solvent exposures and Parkinson disease risk in twins” ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 August 2012

Commentary on: Rubocki RJ, McCue BJ, Duffy KJ, Shepard KL, Shepherd SJ, Wisecarver JL Natural DNA mixtures generated in fraternal twins in utero. J Forensic Sci 2001;46(1):120-5

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

Dizygotic Twin Infants: Controversial Case Study Series/Twin Research Reviews: Twin and Non-twin ICSI Conceptions; Emory University Twin Study; Labor in Multiple Pregnancy After Previous C-Section Delivery; Cell-Free DNA Fetal Fraction in Twin Pregn

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

Double Vision: Eye Findings in Twins Reared Apart/Twin Research: Perinatology and Conjoined Twins; Thoracopagus Twin Cattle; MZ Twins Discordant for Musical Training/In the News: College Benefits for Twin Parents; Octomom Revisited; Genetic Editing

scientific article published on 22 April 2019

Dramatically different dizygotic twins: will we include them in Research? Twin research reviews: congenital anomalies, mirror-image effects in conjoined twins, older mothers of twins; Twin statistics: 'Massachusetts, land of twins'; Tribute: Dr Vict

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Dvojcata Asociace: The First International Twins Conference in Prague, Czech Republic. research reviews: twinning trends in East Flanders; twinning trends around the world. twins in the news: 'mixed race' twins; mysterious languages; piano duo; happ

scientific article published on February 1, 2012

Education issues

scientific article published in August 2005

Elizabeth M. Bryan: tributes from home and abroad; research reviews: anorexia nervosa in opposite-sex twins, twin study of self-esteem, DNA differences in monozygotic twins; twins and more twins: twins living apart, twins playing together, twins wor

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Eye Refraction in Doubly Exchanged Monozygotic Twins

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Facial changes caused by smoking: a comparison between smoking and nonsmoking identical twins

scientific article published in May 2014

Famous twin babies and famous twins

scientific article published in August 2005

Female monozygotic twins with selective mutism--a case report

scientific article published in October 2006

Fluctuating asymmetry and general intelligence: No genetic or phenotypic association

Fullerton Virtual Twin Project: Overview and 2019 Update

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Fullerton Virtual Twin Study

scientific article published on December 2006

Fullerton Virtual Twin Study: An Update ⬇️

scientific article published on December 7, 2012

Genetic and environmental influences on applied creativity: A reared-apart twin study

scientific article

Genetic and environmental influences on the Verbal-Perceptual-Image Rotation (VPR) model of the structure of mental abilities in the Minnesota study of twins reared apart

scientific article published in November 2007

Genetic and experiential influences on behavior: Twins reunited at seventy-eight years

scientific article

Heritability of fluctuating asymmetry in a human twin sample: the effect of trait aggregation.

scientific article published in November 2008

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:

scientific article published on 01 February 2015

Human Dizygotic Twinning: Evolutionary-Based Explanations/Twin Research Reviews: Conjoined Twins in a Triplet Pregnancy; Double Embryo Transfer; Health Anxiety; Delayed Delivery of the Second Twin/In the Media: Digital Marketing Twins; Bereaved Twin

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Human Interest

Human cloning: insights from twins and twin research.

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I. 'Street of twins': multiple births in Cuba II. The Cuban twin registry: an update / twin research reports: cord entanglement; heritability of clubfoot; school separation / twins and twin researchers in the news: reunited at seventy-eight; basketb

scientific article published on 3 July 2014

Identical twin parents; research reviews: twin pregnancy risk factors, a new twin type and a school legislation update; twin parents and twin researchers in the news

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Identical twins doubly exchanged at birth: a case report of genetic and environmental influences on the adult epigenome

scientific article published on 12 December 2016

In detail

scientific article

Insightful contribution to empirical analyses of selective mutism (SM)

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

Insights From Twin Research: Conference at Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

scientific article published on 01 April 2015

Insights From Twin Research: Conference at Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne, Australia / Twin Studies: Timing of Monozygotic Splitting and Commentary; Gestational Diabetes; ICOMBO'S Post-Partum Depression Study; Photographs of Conjoined Twins / H

scientific article published on 5 March 2015

Intellectual similarity of virtual twin pairs: Developmental trends

scientific article published on May 2007

Job satisfaction: Environmental and genetic components

Justifying Separate Experiences for Twins: Dorothy Burlingham's Classic Twin Study/Twin Research Reviews: Monozygotic Twins with Maturity-Onset Diabetes, Gene Editing of Chinese Twins, Educational Disadvantage of Early-Born Twins and Developmental T

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Korean Twins Reared Apart: Genetic and Cultural Influences on Behavior and Health

journal article; published in Adoption Quarterly in 2015

Media highlights

Memories of the Child Development Center study of adopted monozygotic twins reared apart: an unfulfilled promise

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Mistaken identity: results and repercussions/Twin research reviews: ovarian transplants; Kidney donation; False beliefs and emotion understanding/In the news: Surfing twins; Driving twins/Tribute: Daniel G. Freedman

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Monozygotic and dizygotic twins' retrospective and current bereavement-related behaviors: an evolutionary perspective

scientific article published in June 2002

Monozygotic triplets: concordance and discordance for cleft lip and palate / twin research reviews: depression in mothers of multiples; depression in mothers and fathers of ART conceived multiples; epigenetic differences in monozygotic twins; congen

scientific article published on August 2009

Monozygotic twins: chorionicity and more

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Muscle health and performance in monozygotic twins with 30 years of discordant exercise habits

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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

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New sources of reared apart twins; research reviews: female fitness in male-female twin pairs, heritability of olfactory thresholds and the Twelfth International Twin Congress; multiple birth conceptions: rethinking things; double donations

scientific article published in October 2007

Nonverbal cognition across genetic and environmentally informative kinships: The case for opposite-sex twin pairs and virtual twins

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

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;

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Opposite-sex and same-sex twin studies of physiological, cognitive and behavioral traits

scientific article published on 08 November 2019

Opposite-sex twins: when they marry; research reviews: familial twinning, twin study of food neophobia, and monozygotic twins discordant for phenotypic sex; human interest: the cave of romulus and remus, twin politicians in Poland, and parents of tw

scientific article published in April 2008

Organ donation: a twin-based perspective

scientific article published on April 2012

Pairs of Genetically Unrelated Look-Alikes : Further Tests of Personality Similarity and Social Affiliation

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Parenting as Phenotype: A Behavioral Genetic Approach to Understanding Parenting ⬇️

scientific article published on June 14, 2012

Passing of Dr. Irving I. Gottesman

scientific article published on 27 July 2016

Peer network overlap in twin, sibling, and friend dyads

scientific article published on 19 September 2012

Performing Together: Monozygotic Twin Comedians/Twin research: Mirror-Image Cleft Lip and Palate; Dental Caries; Noninvasive Prenatal testing; Capgras Syndrome with Folie à Deux/In the News: Athletic Twins; Transgendered Twins; Crib-Sharing; Common

scientific article published on 11 February 2019

Personality and birth order in monozygotic twins adopted apart: a test of Sulloway's theory; Research Reviews: twin births and cancer risk in mothers, male sexual dysfunction, twin study of ultimatum game behavior; Human Interest: 'The Land of Twins

scientific article published in February 2008

Personality similarity in twins reared apart and together ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 1988

Population-based research: breastfeeding multiple birth infants/twin research reviews and news: perceived aging in twins; separation of conjoined twins; school placement legislation/twins in education, fashion and humanitarian events

scientific article

Prosocial and self-interested intra-twin pair behavior in monozygotic and dizygotic twins in the early to middle childhood transition

scientific article published on 06 April 2018

Psychobiological and evolutionary perspectives on coping and health characteristics following loss: a twin study

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Rare Conjoined Twins / Twin Research Reviews / Twins in the News ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 October 2011

Reared-Apart Chinese Twins: Chance Discovery/Twin-Based Research: Twin Study of Media Use; Twin Relations Over the Life Span; Breast-Feeding Opposite-Sex Twins/Print and Online Media: Twins in Fashion; Second Twin Pair Born to Tennis Star; Twin Prim

scientific article published in April 2017

Reflections on twin relationships: twins reared apart and twins of opposite gender

scientific article published on December 2012

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 Redu

scientific article published in December 2016

Remembering John C. Loehlin: 'Our Field Has Lost a Lion'/Twin Research Reviews: Cognitive Skills and Social Mobility, Risk of Arachnoid Hemorrhage, Heritability of Dental Traits, and Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome/Media Reports: Identical Twins W

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Research reviews: faces, hearts and minds

scientific article published in December 2002

Resemblance for age at menarche in female twins reared apart and together.

scientific article published in December 2007

Reunited Twins: Spouse Relations / Twin Research Reports / Timely Topics ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

Revisited: the New York Child Development Center Twin Study

scientific article published in December 2006

Revisiting sources of left-handedness in multiple-birth individuals

scientific article published on 23 May 2018

Russian twin studies: colleagues, controversies, case studies and current events

scientific article

Same or separate classrooms: a twin bill

scientific article published on June 2006

Same-age unrelated siblings: A unique test of within-family environmental influences on IQ similarity

Same-sex twins are taller and heavier than opposite-sex twins (but only if breastfed): Possible evidence for sex bias in human breast milk

scientific article published on 9 January 2017

Situs Inversus Totalis in Twins: A Brief Review and a Life History / Twin Research: Twin Studies of Trisomy 21; Monozygotic Twin Concordance for Bilateral Coronoid Hyperplasia; Prenatal Hormonal Effects in Mixed-Sex Non-Human Primate Litters; Insura

scientific article published on February 2017

Social closeness of MZ and DZ twin parents towards nieces and nephews

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Soft contact lens wear in identical twins.

scientific article published in August 2003

Solvent exposure and Parkinson's disease: co-twin control study

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

Sports pairs: insights on athletic talent; research reviews: twins with leukemia; parents and twins

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

Spotlights;research samplings; literatures, politics, photography and athletes.

scientific article

Stolen twin: fascination and curiosity/twin research reports: evolution of sleep length; dental treatment of craniopagus twins; cryopreserved double embryo transfer; gender options in multiple pregnancy/current events: appendectomy in one twin; auti

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Suicidal behaviors in surviving monozygotic and dizygotic co-twins: is the nature of the co-twin's cause of death a factor?

scientific article published in December 2009

SuperQuads: a day in the life; research reviews: color-number association, finger-length ratios, twinning diets, athletic pairs

scientific article published on August 2006

Switched-at-birth twins in the Canary Islands: revisited

scientific article published on 01 August 2013

Symposium in Honor of Irving I. Gottesman (December 29, 1930-June 29, 2016)

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Teaching about twins: college courses and public lectures

scientific article published on 7 November 2013

The 14th Congress of the International Society for Twin Studies: selected highlights

scientific article published in October 2012

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-

scientific article published on 8 January 2018

The 2016 Satellite Meeting of the International Society of Twin Studies: An Overview/Tribute to Irving I. Gottesman/Research: MZ Twinning After Single Embryo Transfer; Twin Study of Mononucleosis; Cerebral Injury After Twin-To-Twin Transfusion Syndr

scientific article published on 15 August 2016

The Fourth International Network of Twin Registries: Overview from Osaka/Research Reviews: Familial Fraternal Twinning; Twin Study of Masculine Faces; Physical Aggression and Epigenetics; Prenatal Education for Parents of Twins/Current Events: 2016

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

The New Sesquizygotic Twins and More: Exotic Twin Types/Twin Research Reviews: Parental Affection and Co-Twins' Personality; Prenatal Demise in Twin Pregnancies; Heteropaternal Superfecundation; Selective Feticide in Dichorionic Twins/In the News: I

scientific article published on 21 May 2019

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 Bow

scientific article published on 14 October 2019

The University of São Paulo Twin Panel: Current Status and Prospects for Brazilian Twin Studies in Behavioral Research

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

The Value of Twin Studies: A Response to Slate Magazine / Research Reviews / Twin News Worth Noting

scientific article published on 01 December 2011

The birth of octuplets: a research puzzle / twin research reviews: natural twinning rate; survival at, or before, thirty weeks gestation; unique mirror-imaging effects / news highlights: twin robbery at KaDeWe?; twins born together and apart; twinni

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The case for the odd case

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

The cognitive, behavioral, and personality profiles of a male monozygotic triplet set discordant for sexual orientation.

scientific article published in October 2004

The twin children of Auschwitz-Birkenau: conference on Nazi medicine

scientific article published in May 2013

The unmet concerns of twins with special needs: diagnostic challenges and service recommendations

scientific article published on February 2015

Tribute to dr louis keith: twin and physician extraordinaire/twin research reports: influences on asthma severity; chimerism revisited; DNA strand break repair/media reports: twins born apart; elevated twin frequencies; celebrity father of twins; co

scientific article published on 12 September 2014

Twin Data: The Lives That Drive the Findings/Twin Research Reviews: Twin Concordance for Kleine-Levin Syndrome; Twin Study of Political Discussion; Twin Relationship Quality and Urinary Cortisol Level; Twin Research Guide/In the News: Twins' Same Da

scientific article published on 31 March 2020

Twin Legacies: Victor and Vincent McKusick/Twin Studies: Twinning Rates I; Twinning Rates II; MZ Twin Discordance for Russell-Silver Syndrome; Twins' Language Skills/Headlines: Babies Born to Identical Twin Couples; Identity Exchange; Death of Princ

scientific article published on 3 March 2016

Twin Olympians: the hard science and the lives behind it.

scientific article

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 Brai

scientific article

Twin Studies

scientific article published on 01 April 2015

Twin Studies in Brazil: Projects and Plans / Twin Research: Infant Twins' Viewing of Social Scenes; Religiosity and Substance Abuse; Down Syndrome Among Twins; Twin Case of Chronic Periodontitis / In the News: The Twin 'Property Brothers', Twins Wit

scientific article published on October 2017

Twin classics: research that always inspires/Twin studies: elder twin relationships; Superfecundated twinning in chimpanzees; Conjoined twinning and embryo transfer; Reduced frequency of in vitro multiples/Professional and human interest: first iden

scientific article published on 7 July 2015

Twin loss: the annual convention / twin research reviews: childhood empathy; hormone replacement therapy and skeletal muscle; multiple birth conception in older women / twins in the media: twins with kidney disease; a pair of poets; the other twins

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Twin paternity

scientific article published in December 2004

Twin research reports

scientific article published in October 2013

Twin reunions: the science behind the fascination

scientific article published on 9 September 2013

Twin studies of multiple myeloma: a research foundation and recent findings

scientific article

Twin study summaries

scientific article published in August 2005

Twin study summaries

scientific article published in December 2004

Twin transplants; twin study summary; human interest topics

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

Twinning and Multiple Birth Rates According to Maternal Age in the City of São Paulo, Brazil: 2003-2014.

scientific article

Twins Living Apart: Behavioral Insights/Twin Study Reviews: Managing Monochorionic-Diamniotic Twin Pregnancies; Paternity Testing in Multiple Pregnancies; Twin Research on Resilience; Trisomies in Twin Pregnancies/Human Interest: Reunited Brazilian

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Twins Reared Apart and Twins in Families: The Findings Behind the Fascination

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Twins Reared Apart: Zygotic Division After Artificial Insemination/Twin Research Reviews: Selective Resuscitation of Premature Twins; Scientist Jailed for Editing Twins' Genes; Sexual Arousal Patterns in MZ Twins Discordant for Sexual Orientation; M

scientific article published on 02 June 2020

Twins Switched at Birth: Frequency, Life Histories, Twin Relationships, and Critical Issues/Twin Research Reviews: Classroom Placement; Mirror Syndrome; Unusual Twinning; Parenting Stress/Human Interest: Triplet Film; Educational Achievement; Prison

scientific article published on 22 August 2018

Twins Working Together: Collaboration or Contest/Twin Research: Molar Pregnancy; Social Support; Conjoined Twins; Immune Discordance/Headlines: Twin Politicians; Multiple Birth Marriages; Guinness World Record; Museum of Memory and Human Rights (San

scientific article published on 07 December 2018

Twins and politics: political careers and political attitudes / twin research reviews: pair-bonding; facial expressivity in reared apart twins; educating multiples / stories that move and amaze us: a military funeral; a twins' reunion; Egyptian sept

scientific article published on December 2008

Twins and transsexualism: an update and a preview; research reviews: conjoined twins, angiographic lesions, single versus double embryo transfer; headlines: school placement legislation, Junior Taekwondo Olympics, prosthetic ears, murder victim

scientific article published in December 2007

Twins and virtual twins: Do genetic (as well as experiential) factors affect developmental risks?

scientific article published on 18 April 2015

Twins reared apart: a forgotten case/twin research reviews: X-inactivation and female co-twin discordance for hemophilia; transplantation for breast reconstruction; chimerism and telomere attrition in dizygotic twins; divergent life histories in twi

scientific article published on February 2009

Twins reunited: scientific and personal perspectives/twin research studies: multiple birth effects on IQ and body size; life style, muscles, and metabolism; monochorionic dizygotic twin with blood chimerism; amniocentesis for twins/twins in the medi

scientific article published on 04 March 2014

Twins switched at birth: a case from the Canary Islands

scientific article published in February 2010

Twins' Injuries: Genetic and Environmental Risks / Twin Research Reports / Human Interest Stories ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2011

Twins, birth weight, cognition, and handedness ⬇️

scientific article published on September 28, 2012

Twins: not just in science, but in society.

scientific article published in April 2002

Twinsburg, Ohio; Twinsburg Research Institute; Twin study summaries; The outside world

scientific article published on 01 February 2006

Twinsters the Movie: Reared Apart Twins in Real Time

scientific article published in February 2016

Two monozygotic twin pairs discordant for female-to-male transsexualism

scientific article published on 27 June 2006

Unrelated ART twins / Tribute: Dr Robert Derom / Twin research reviews: Transfusion syndrome; Discordant MZ-twin method / Matched talents: Tennis twins: (Mike and Bob Bryan; Sonchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana); Television twins: (Ellen and Lynda Kahn).

scientific article published in December 2009

Unrelated look-alikes: Replicated study of personality similarity and qualitative findings on social relatedness

What virtual twins reveal about general intelligence and other behaviors ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Why are there more same-sex than opposite-sex dizygotic twins?

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Why twins fascinate

scientific article published in December 2004

Zygosity Assessment by Self-Report; Research Reports; Human Interest ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2011

Zygosity Diagnosis: When Physicians and DNA Disagree

scientific article

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