Sentences with phrase «fraternal birth»

An immune response in some pregnant women's bodies may explain the «fraternal birth order effect» — that men are more likely to be gay the more older brothers they have

Not exact matches

If you had previously given birth to fraternal twins, there is likelihood that you might have another pair in your future pregnancies.

Treatments like fertility drugs primarily increase a person's odds of giving birth to fraternal twins (two eggs fertilized by two sperms).

Similarly, the siblings themselves from a multiple birth may be referred to as monozygotic if they are identical, or as polyzygotic if they are fraternal.

The generally accepted multiple birth rates are based on all twins and do not distinguish between monozygotic (identical) and multizygotic (fraternal) twins.

Two weeks before her due date, Connie is induced and gives birth via c - section to fraternal twins Eddy and Jeremy.

Evidence includes: «moderate genetic influences demonstrated in well - sampled twin studies; the cross-culturally robust fraternal - birth - order effect on male sexual orientation; and the finding that when infant boys are surgically and socially «changed» into girls, their eventual sexual orientation is unchanged (i.e., they remain sexually attracted to females).

In fact, astronomers are beginning to consider them twins, albeit fraternal, born in the same place at the same time but separated almost immediately after birth.

According to Nancy Segal, a psychologist and director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University, Fullerton, and a fraternal twin herself, twins occur naturally in about one out of every 80 births in Western countries, with one - third of those being identical twins [source: Fiegl].

fraternal (in genetics) The term for a type of twin birth where each baby comes from a separate fertilized egg.

In another work, a video titled «Separated at Birth» (2003), Wilson - as - Barbara Bush discusses how George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein are fraternal twins.

Honolulu, HI About Blog New York Times bestselling author MeiMei Fox and her husband, screenwriter / director Kiran Ramchandran gave birth to fraternal twin boys in December, 2014.