Sentences with phrase «in pairs of identical twins»

By seeing which parts of the face are the most similar in shape in a pair of identical twins, the researchers then calculated the likelihood that the shape of that part of the face is determined by genetics.

Not exact matches

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But Hughes says that when strangers turn a corner and come across a pair of identical twin girls standing at the end of the hallway, they tend to stop right in their tracks for a moment.

A rough illustration of this finding can be seen in the concordance of identical and fraternal twins for high intelligence for twin pairs selected because at least one member of the pair has an IQ score above 120.

They asked 607 pairs of identical or fraternal twins who had reported having used marijuana at least five times in their lives to recall how they had felt when they smoked: whether they were, for instance, relaxed and creative or anxious and unable to concentrate.

The team looked at 5474 pairs of twins — 2008 of them identical — and analysed their achievement in GCSEs — UK exams usually taken at age 16.

To test the role of genetics in body odor, Natsch and a colleague recruited 12 pairs of identical twins: seven sets of sisters and five sets of brothers.

Researchers studied methylation, the attachment of a methyl group to specific regions of DNA, in 37 pairs of male identical twins who were discordant — meaning that one was gay and the other straight — and 10 pairs who were both gay.

Like other identical pairs, they have a favorite twin story to relate: When Pam went into labor with her first child, Tami, miles away and unaware of her sister's condition, felt pains in her stomach.

To get some closure on the nature versus nurture debate in human aesthetics, researchers asked 547 pairs of identical twins and 214 pairs of same - gender fraternal twins to view 200 faces and rate them on a scale of one to seven, with one being the least attractive and seven the most attractive.

The team used a statistical model of T cell receptor formation to analyze receptor DNA sequences in blood samples from adult pairs of identical twins.

It's easy to get entirely creeped out in the twin festival's «research» enclosure watching an identical pair of slim brunettes postpone taking a bite of their identical clouds of cotton candy until students from the Ohio State University College of Dentists have finished measuring their gums.

In this thought - provoking documentary, meet one such twin who was born weighing more than three times as much as his brother, a pair of identical twins with different sexual orientations, and a young girl born with extra pairs of arms and legs belonging to her undeveloped parasitic twin.

In the new study, researchers at King's College London turned to a cohort of more than 11,000 pairs of both identical and nonidentical twins born in the United Kingdom between 1994 and 199In the new study, researchers at King's College London turned to a cohort of more than 11,000 pairs of both identical and nonidentical twins born in the United Kingdom between 1994 and 199in the United Kingdom between 1994 and 1996.

A small proportion of those pairs — about 0.2 % — become identical twins, nearly equal in mass.

Such ideas inspired Tuck Ngun, a postdoc in Vilain's lab, to study the methylation patterns at 140,000 regions in the DNA of 37 pairs of male identical twins who were discordant — meaning that one was gay and the other straight — and 10 pairs who were both gay.

The researchers speculate that some cases of schizophrenia afflicting only one of a pair of identical twins could be due to mutations causing the expansion of trinucleotide repeats in the affected twin during the early embryonic development.

Smith and Broude, working with colleagues, at the Shemyakin - Ovchinnikov Institute for Bioorganic Chemistry in Moscow, studied five pairs of identical twins in which one twin had schizophrenia.

But a new study, reported this month in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, suggests that a pair of identical twins can be dealt a subtly different genetic hand that makes one twin prone to psychiatric illness.

Early twins studies were based on fewer than 50 twin pairs and could not detect any greater similarities in the microbiomes of identical twins compared with those of fraternal twins.

In one study of 214 same - sex twins, identical twins were more likely to enjoy the same protein foods, but when it came to fruit and vegetables, their likes were only marginally more similar than with the pairs of non-identical twins.

Using measures of anxious personality in parents and anxiety symptoms in their offspring, adult parents from identical twin pairs were found to show greater similarity in anxiety levels to their own adolescent children than their nieces and nephews.

Unless you happen either to have an identical sibling or to know a pair, there's a good chance your knowledge of twins is based in part on fiction.

Beyond the genetic information contained in DNA, the researchers examined patterns of DNA methylation — a molecular modification to DNA that affects when and how strongly a gene is expressed — across the genome in pairs of identical male twins.

EPPIE LEDERER AND PAULINE PHILLIPS were one of the most famous pairs of identical twins in the United States during the 20th century.

Classic twin studies of the past focused primarily on the similarities in identical siblings, especially in the relatively rare pairs who were raised apart.

Emma Stanton (Ashley Olsen) and Samantha Stanton (Mary - Kate Olsen) are a pair of 12 - year - old identical twins who look alike, but otherwise have little in common.

Vacth, who starred in Ozon's 2013 film Young and Beautiful, plays a woman caught in a pair of passionate relationships with diabolical, identical twins, played by Belgian actor and Dardenne Brothers fixture Jérémie Renier.

First shown at Jay Jopling's stall at the inaugural «Unfair» in Cologne in 1992, the work consists of seated identical twins positioned in front of a pair of Hirst's spot paintings, applied directly onto the wall behind.

Also exhibited for the first time since 1992 was Hirst's installation piece «Wendy, Wenzei» (1992) in which seated identical twins are positioned in front of a pair of wall spot paintings.

Seated identical twins were positioned in front of a pair of spot paintings applied directly to the wall.

Also included in the project are Sophie and Polly, a pair of monozygotic twins who are so identical they have matching fingerprints meaning their DNA is virtually indistinguishable.

First, any explanation that is used to account for the unexplained variance — the nongenetic differences between children reared in the same home — should apply to all kinds of sibling pairs, including identical twins, because the conclusion about the ineffectiveness of the shared environment holds for all of them.