Sentences with phrase «pair of identical twins»

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.

Scientists try to detect genetic influence by comparing cancer rates in pairs of identical twins — who share all the same genes — with occurrence in fraternal twins, who share, on average, 50 % of their genes.

And when he performed CAT scans on pairs of identical twins with and without the disease — including Steven and David Elmore — he saw that schizophrenics» brains had less tissue and larger fluid - filled ventricles.

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

Stir in a hormonal trophy wife, a sociopathic pair of identical twins and a disgruntled whistle blower — and you have a recipe for murder most foul.

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.

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.

Bocklandt has collected DNA from two groups of 15 pairs of identical twins.

Jonathan Mill at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and colleagues scanned the genome of 22 pairs of identical twins — chosen because one twin in each pair was diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

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.

Pairs of identical twins, one obese, one thin, are helping unravel the puzzle of how you can be fat and fit at the same time

Coccaro used psychological surveys to estimate the genetic roots of irritability by comparing its prevalence among 182 pairs of identical twins, who have identical genes, and 118 pairs of fraternal twins, whose genes differ.

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.

What the unsettlingly named Dr. Prainsack had done, it emerged, was assemble 17 pairs of identical twins and ask them, in a nutshell, whether they, you know, felt individuality.

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.

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.

In fact, researchers at the University Hospitals in Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University studied 186 pairs of identical twins and found that everyday factors such as sun exposure and smoking significantly accelerated the aging process.

Ivan Čerečina looks at Jean - Pierre Gorin's unique documentary Poto and Cabengo (1980), the story of a pair of identical twins from San Diego who reportedly invented their own secret language.

Between now and then, the only other major wide releases are the Ron Howard - directed adventure «In the Heart of the Sea» — based on a story that inspired the Herman Melville classic «Moby - Dick» — and «Legend,» starring Tom Hardy as a pair of identical twin gangsters in 1960s Britain.

The G5 and the G5 Plus may look like a pair of identical twins but the definitely have different DNAs running inside them.

Apart from the 0.5 - inch added on the display size and a few minor tweaks, the two smartphones look like a pair of identical twins.

A 2015 study of 3,459 Korean adults that included 542 pairs of identical twins and 122 pairs of fraternal twins surveyed people about their temperament and character.