Sentences with phrase «of sibling pairs»

Therefore, there is no a priori reason to expect a bias of sibling pairs depending on sibling type (e.g., both siblings in the NT sibling group, but absent in the MZ and DZ sample), which would be a confounding variable.

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.

The results of these studies are monotonously consistent, regardless of the outcome measure used and the kinds of sibling pairs who participate — twins or ordinary siblings, reared together or apart, biologically related or not.

The Add Health data also contain a subsample of sibling pairs.

Not exact matches

Real - life testing: To make sure we were only recommending cat - approved products, we gave each treat to our four test cats: two healthy seniors and a pair of 2 - year - old siblings.

«Health care professionals should be aware of children's vulnerability after experiencing sibling death, especially for same - sex sibling pairs and sibling pairs with close age,» the study's authors concluded.

Some siblings bought their 66 - year - old father a pair of EnChroma glasses, the techy eyewear that somehow allows people with colorblindness to see in color, for his birthday.

Babies were carried by older siblings or elderly parents lived in the same house so there was always an extra pair of arms to cuddle baby.

Twins may not always become the best of playmates, just like any pair of siblings.

Between these types, triplets that include an identical (monozygotic) pair of siblings plus a fraternal sibling are the result of a dizygotic pregnancy, where one zygote divides into two fetuses and the other doesn't.

Many sets of quadruplets contain a mixture of identical and fraternal siblings, such as three identical and one fraternal, two identical and two fraternal, or two pairs of identicals.

The other somewhat unique feature of the study is that it included «discordant sibling pairs,» which means that one sibling was breastfed and the other was formula fed.

Around that time, a long - term study came out that compared pairs of siblings — one breast - fed, the other formula - fed.

A Suffolk County political aide, a pair of siblings from Nassau County, an 81 - year - old man and a 10 - year - old boy were killed and six people injured Sunday after an out - of - control car careened across the LIE's grassy median near Manorville, went airborne, slammed into westbound traffic and broke into pieces, Suffolk police said.

Indeed, Paul M. Wise, who led the study, points out that fraternal twins are no more genetically similar than any other pair of siblings.

The pairings have resulted in the birth of over 500 babies, and a number of the children have met the women and men whose genetic material they carry, and their full genetic siblings living in donor families.

Working first in people with perfectly immune - matched siblings and then with partially mismatched donor - recipient pairs, the researchers showed that the majority of individuals could achieve stable kidney function and successfully wean off of their immunosuppressants with few problems — in one case for up to nine years.

Part 4 of a seriesDepression and anxiety are like a pair of warring siblings.

Eight of the birds were unrelated, and there were three pairs of siblings.

The Swedish Twin Registry has enabled her to compare identical twins, who share 100 % of their genes, with fraternal twins, whose genetic makeups are no more similar to each other than any pair of siblings.

The evidence suggests it does: 249 pairs of siblings were more likely to both have diabetes, or both be healthy, if they shared the same set of genetic markers in the region of the IL - 12 gene on chromosome 5.

The sample for this landmark study included 720 pairs of same - sex adolescent siblings — including twins, half siblings, and genetically unrelated siblings — and their parents.

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.

In the lab, each pair of siblings placed one hand at the end of a Y - shaped tube (see image above).

In addition, a small pilot study of 20 sibling pairs with extremely dissimilar problem behavior will investigate whether environments alter gene expression.

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

Full marks will be scored if your partner relates as well to complete strangers as well as the siblings they've heard about, proving the pair of you are a social force to be reckoned with.

It's an inspired on - screen pairing, the first time the siblings have worked together since a series of «Funny or Die» acting - instruction videos nearly a decade ago.

Some of the few moments that work are the scenes of genuine, warped affection between the pair that are immediately recognizable to those with siblings.

It's headed through a cartoonish pair of villainous siblings, offering a veritable buffet of scenery - chewing for Malin Akerman.

For next, we find the pair right in the midst of the sibling rivalry which led to the first documented case of fratricide.

The Untitled Sam Levinson Project (Director and screenwriter: Sam Levinson)-- A pair of reckless siblings are dragged into a chaotic family wedding by their overwrought mother.

Among the many new characters introduced this time around, perhaps the most notable are a pair of mysterious siblings with «enhanced abilities»: Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. Scarlet Witch, played with Gothic ethereality by Elizabeth Olsen, and her twin brother Pietro, a.k.a. Quicksilver, played by Aaron Taylor - Johnson in bleach - blond hair and an iffy Russian accent.

Emiliano Rocha Minter's claustrophobic vision of a post-apocalyptic Mexico City finds a pair of teenage siblings coming under the sway of a man who views the collapse of society as a call for humans to embrace their carnal nature and shatter every taboo, starting with the obvious one between brothers and sisters.

Malin Akerman and Jake Lacy are a pair of hilarious villains, the sneeringly evil sibling corporate bigwigs.

The only information that was given is they will portray a pair of siblings in the eight - episode final season of the show.

Sony has released yet another clip from 22 Jump Street, in which the McQuaid «brothers» (Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum) encounter another pair of siblings (Keith Lucas and Kenny Lucas) in their new dorm.

The film, set on an island off Seattle, stars Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt as a pair of siblings in what's described as «an emotionally twisted tale of sisters, brothers and best friends.»

It is, again, no coincidence that the movie is at pains to remind us early on of its various love - struck pairings: Tony Stark and Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow); Natasha Romanoff and Bruce Banner; Star - Lord and Gamora; Scarlet Witch and Vision; and, let's face it, though theirs is a sibling affection rather than a carnal one and definitely qualifying as «love - hate,» Thor and Loki.

Iggys role makes sense, since he was one of Bowsers kids in the games (well, before Nintendo retconned that fact), but instead of being paired up with one of his siblings (say, Lemmy or Larry), his partner is Spike, who was just a random froglike enemy in Super Mario Bros. 3.

The film opens with a mission atop a skyscraper in which the agents try to thwart a pair of Eastern European criminal siblings, one of whom (Til Schweiger) gets away.

There are two pairs of siblings in Maps to the Stars — and they're damned from the start.

The temptation to brand the film as «autobiographical» is hard to resist: Baumbach did grow up in Brooklyn in the 1970's, one of four siblings, to a pair of parents who both wrote for a living (his father Jonathan wrote novels and short fiction, while his mother Georgia Brown contributed regularly to the Village Voice).

Jason Bateman)-- World Premiere After an unlikely accident, a pair of grown siblings (Nicole Kidman and director - star Jason Bateman) are compelled to move back in with their eccentric parents (Christopher Walken and Maryann Plunkett), professional practical jokers whose lifetime of public interventions have alienated their children.

The actual storyline involves a pair of sibling National Guardsmen named Angus and Dorian (Jake Busey and Luke Wilson), who use a low - flying helicopter to put a fright into their unfaithful stepfather at their mother's request.

It's a disturbing movie about a pair of siblings trying to prove that a possessed mirror killed their parents, but the most frightening aspect is its ambiguous ending.

The best - regarded of the three most recent efforts Coppola considers his «student films», the predominantly black and white drama Tetro reunites a pair of estranged American siblings in Buenos Aires.

While the preview shows that the core of the Grimm Brothers» tale remains — with the pair being lured into a lavish gingerbread house by a wicked witch — the film takes the concept a step further, with the sibling duo dedicating their lives to fighting supernatural forces as a result of their experiences.

The Loved Ones (Director & Screenwriter: Sam Levinson)-- A pair of reckless siblings are dragged into a chaotic family wedding by their overwrought mother.

The evil corporation, Energyne, is run by a pair of cartoon sibling moguls (Malin Akerman and Jake Lacy, abysmally bad in thankless roles) who watch most of the movie unfold from the computer monitors in their high - rise headquarters, like kids waiting impatiently for their turn at the joystick.