Sentences with phrase «from twin studies»

Evidence from twin studies notwithstanding, the search for specific genes linked to major depression has come up empty [52, 53].

Revisiting the association between reading achievement and antisocial behavior: New evidence of an environmental explana - tion from a twin study.

Findings from the twin study were similar.

Association between self - reported childhood sexual abuse and adverse psychosocial outcomes: Results from a twin study

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In the case, the twins alleged that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took from their idea of a social network platform, which they developed while studying at Harvard University.

Dispassionate readers, who have studied the Galileo caricature of a war between science and religion will know that, apart from that sorry, somewhat isolated affair, the Catholic Church and the science lab have long been conjoined twins in the advancement of knowledge.

Energy from macronutrient and food group intakes at 21 mo of age: the Gemini twin cohort (whole study population and consumers) 1

A study done by looking at 158 pregnant women who underwent selective reduction from higher order multiples to twins showed that the mother had a 10.6 % chance of miscarriage.

Trials recruited 5787 women (this included 512 women interviewed as part of a cluster randomised trial); of these, data were available from two studies for 42 women with twins or higher order multiples.

We will seek ICCs for outcomes for twins and higher multiples from trials (if available) from similar trials or from observational studies.

I pulled neonatal mortality rates from the Wonder Database, searching for criteria that matches the MANA study as closely as possible (White women, Singles and twins, 37 weeks and above, Birth weight of 2500 grams or more, Live birth through 27 days, Years 2004 - 2009; it includes everything else: all ages, all education levels, all marital statuses, etc).

Although her studies were extensive, the real learning came from her fraternal twins Owen and Sophia!

According to a study from the University of Adelaide, the optimal time for twins to be born to avoid complications is 37 weeks, but many twins come earlier.

The twin study, which is published in the journal Genetics in Medicine, was conducted by researchers at Karolinska Institutet together with colleagues from the European research network TINNET.

For the research, 324 identical and 210 fraternal twins participated in a study task that asked them to decide how much money to send to another study participant — representing trust — and another task that asked them to decide how much money to take away from another participant — representing distrust.

Apart from the Ayotzinapa case, Torero was involved in studying «the structural weaknesses that allowed fire to bring down the Twin Towers» in the 9/11 attacks and investigating a fire that killed 81 inmates in Chile's San Miguel prison in 2011.

BALTIMORE — Molecular tests may be able to distinguish homosexual from heterosexual men, a small study of twins suggests.

The virus was found when Bas Dutilh of Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and colleagues were trawling through data from faecal samples collected for a 2010 study looking at the microbial gut communities of twins.

A long - term follow - up study of 3050 twins from the Finnish Twin Cohort has shown that midlife, moderately vigorous physical activity is associated with better cognition at old age.

In the new study, he and his colleagues looked at 789 pairs of adolescent twins from two ongoing studies — one from the Los Angeles, California, area and the other from Minnesota — who enrolled between the ages of 9 and 11.

After several years of studying genetic material from the twins and their parents, the team came up with two possible scenarios.

Overall, these twin studies suggest that genes explain between 30 and 60 percent of altruistic tendencies, with the remaining variation coming from cultural or social effects.

Unique influences from health and other factors can affect a single member of a twin pair, Wise explains, however, the design of this study didn't allow his team to explore such influences.

Not only that, but studies of twins and adoptees have shown that about 50 percent of each person's happiness is determined from birth.

The research sample in the King's College London study included more than 2,200 British twins from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Sstudy included more than 2,200 British twins from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin StudyStudy.

The 21st - century studies of twins have gotten a shot in the arm from new molecular technologies.

Segal doesn't try to explain such spookily synchronized outcomes, but her studies suggest that the harmony between identical twins stems in large part from shared genetic identity.

She writes a bimonthly news column about notable twins in academia, the arts, and sports for the journal Twin Research, and she directs her own behavioral studies of twins from the helm of the Twin Studies Center at California State University at Fulstudies of twins from the helm of the Twin Studies Center at California State University at FulStudies Center at California State University at Fullerton.

In a quest to better predict space weather, the Dartmouth researchers study the radiation belts from above and below in complementary approaches — through satellites (the twin NASA Van Allen Probes) high over Earth and through dozens of instrument - laden balloons (BARREL, or Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses) at lower altitudes to assess the particles that rain down.

Directed by Peltonen, the study represents a collation of national twin registries from Denmark, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.

Using a major new data source — merged birth and school records for all children born in Florida from 1992 to 2002 — the researchers studied the relationships between birth weight and cognitive development by following more than 1.3 million children and nearly 15,000 pairs of twins from birth through middle school.

In the new study, Mikhail Pogorelyy and colleagues from the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, and the Shemyakin - Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, address this excess of T - cell clone sharing between genetically identical twins.

Constellation of factors Twin studies have shown that identical twins (who share the same genes) are more likely to both suffer from the disorder than fraternal twins, which has demonstrated that «there's a large genetic component to the disorder,» Cantor says.

For example, common genetic variation accounted for 23 percent of schizophrenia, but evidence from twin and family studies estimate its total heritability at 81 percent.

This photograph of Laloo, a circus performer whose child - sized parasitic twin seems to emerge from his abdomen, was published in Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, a 19th century book on teratology - literally «the study of monsters» - by George Gould and Walter Pyle.

«It is encouraging that the estimates of genetic contributions to mental disorders trace those from more traditional family and twin studies.

Diana, whose twin sister died from the same disease, says there are multiple reasons she and John decided to participate in the resveratrol study, and they now know he was assigned to take the active drug.

The study, published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology measured the length of white blood cell telomeres in 1,205 twins from the TwinsUK cohort.

Lead author of the study, Dr Simone Ribero, a dermatologist from the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology at King's, said: «For many years dermatologists have identified that the skin of acne sufferers appears to age more slowly than in those who have not experienced any acne in their lifetime.

The new study — by bringing together data from more than 20,000 people participating in 11 multi-ethnic studies around the world — builds a strong case for the role of genetics in PTSD, which had been previously documented on a smaller scale in studies of twins.

Latvala and his colleagues used data from two ongoing population - based longitudinal studies of Finnish twins, FinnTwin12 (FT12), of twins born 1983 - 1987, and FinnTwin16 (FT16), of twins born 1975 to 1979.

By including data from both identical and fraternal twins who were raised together, the study seeks to account for both environmental and genetic contributions.

From that larger study of adult Caucasian twins, study authors analyzed data from a sample of 1,790 men, provided through structured clinical interviews that included retrospective reports of their own drinking as well as their peers» alcohol - related behaviors from adolescence into young adulthood, ages 12 to 25 yeFrom that larger study of adult Caucasian twins, study authors analyzed data from a sample of 1,790 men, provided through structured clinical interviews that included retrospective reports of their own drinking as well as their peers» alcohol - related behaviors from adolescence into young adulthood, ages 12 to 25 yefrom a sample of 1,790 men, provided through structured clinical interviews that included retrospective reports of their own drinking as well as their peers» alcohol - related behaviors from adolescence into young adulthood, ages 12 to 25 yefrom adolescence into young adulthood, ages 12 to 25 years.

Data came from TwinsUK — the biggest UK adult twin registry of 12,000 twins which is used to study the genetic and environmental causes of age related disease.

So instead, Risch looked at data from both twin and family studies to estimate the probability that a first - degree relative of a cancer victim — that is, a parent, child, or sibling — would develop the same cancer.

Studies that compare genetically identical twins with fraternal twins — who only share half of their twin's DNA — help distinguish the effects of genes from the effects of shared environmental factors such as housing, schooling and childhood nutrition.

Some parts of the Twin Cities can spike temperatures up to 9 °F higher than surrounding communities thanks to the «urban heat island» effect, according to a new study from the University of Minnesota.

The researchers looked at three different twin studies from Sweden, the United States and Denmark where both intelligence and age of death was recorded, and where at least one twin in each pair had died.

What made this study different from, say, a study of human twins is that the subjects» movements could be tracked in extraordinary detail over a significant portion of their lifespan.

She added that these results from a national cohort study are likely to be similar in other populations, although Denmark itself had a lower twin rate than many other countries between 1995 and 2000.