Sentences with phrase «twin study found»

A recent twin study found that in the case of identical twins, who have identical genetics, If one of the twins is gay their is about a 50 % chance that the other twin will identify as gay.

«Twin study finds that gut microbiomes run in families.»

The twin study finds that the heritability of the perseverance component of grit is 37 percent.

Not exact matches

They also don't share the same DNA because studies have found that identical twins can have different DNA sequences.

These findings could explain why twin studies show that ho - mose - xuality runs in families, but no «gay gene» can be found, Rice said.

These findings could explain why twin studies show that homosexuality runs in families, but no «gay gene» can be found, Rice said.

In support of the argument that at least sometimes sexual orientation is a condition of birth, Bruni describes how «One landmark study looked at gay men's brothers and found that 52 % of identical twin brothers were also gay.»

A 2011 study showed that the highest rates of twinning were found in Central African populations, with the country of Benin producing the most twins.

And a twin study — using the tools of behavioral genetics — found that genetic factors had a negligible impact on the development of theory of mind skills (Hughes et al 2005).

A study published in the journal Fertility and Sterility found that mothers with a high BMI (body mass index) were significantly more likely to have fraternal twins than women of normal weight.

One study found that women averaging 164.8 cm in height (about 5» 4.8») were more likely to conceive twins than women averaging 161.8 cm (about 5» 3.7»).

But a study found that nearly 15 percent of parents were misinformed about the zygosity of their baby twins.

We found only one other study, conducted in the United States, on mortality associated with breech, twin, and post-term births at home.9 This study showed excess mortality in such home births and voiced concern about the trend to encourage midwives to engage in high risk practice.

One study found that women who drank more milk or milk products had twins more often.

One study found that by the 14th week of pregnancy, twins make intentional movements toward each other.

One study found twin language to occur in 40 percent of twin pairs (Lewis & Thompson, 1992).

Women have reported that the help and support they received with infant feeding for multiples was insufficient; a UK study found that 34 % of mothers of twins said further support with feeding would have helped (McAndrew 2012).

There is a need for well - designed, adequately powered studies of interventions designed for women with twins or higher order multiples to find out what types of education and support are effective in helping these mothers to breastfeed their babies.

These studies also found that women with twin gestations did not incur any greater risk of uterine rupture or maternal or perinatal morbidity than those with a singleton gestation (96, 97).

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

When I first found out I was pregnant with twins, I wasn't nervous about the «higher divorce rate amongst twin parents» that has been discussed in a variety of studies and articles.

A pair of longitudinal twin studies, for example, found no significant link between marijuana use and IQ.

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.

The study found that viruses varied more widely between the twins than the bacterial communities did.

The study, by researchers at King's College London, examined 3D face models of nearly 1,000 UK female twins, and found that the shapes of the end of the nose, the area above and below the lips, cheekbones and the inner corner of the eye were highly influenced by genetics.

Even the new studies clashed somewhat: Unlike the UCSF study, the German research found no major differences between the overall microbiomes of twins with and without MS. Finally, mouse models of MS are not perfect mimics of the human disease, and mouse immune systems aren't identical to people's.

A new study of 3050 twins finds moderately vigorous physical activity — i.e., more strenuous than walking — to be associated with better cognition in a 25 - year follow - up.

In a related study also published today in PNAS, immunologists led by Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy and Hartmut Wekerle of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Germany, examined the gut microbiomes of 34 sets of identical twins, aged 21 to 63, in which only one twin had MS.. They found that Akkermansia was slightly but significantly more abundant in MS patients than in their healthy twins.

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 a study of 602 twins, Dr. Andrey Anokhin and his colleagues at Washington University School of Medicine found that delay discounting gradually improves as teens get older, such that 18 year - olds have a greater ability or tendency to wait for the larger delayed reward, as compared to younger teens.

In a new study, U.C. Davis ecologist Richard Karban found that the chemicals can also influence a plant's twin.

Nancy Segal and Nick Martin acknowledge that progress in finding genes through twin studies has been next to nil.

The surprising finding is that, on average, the monozygotic twins in the University of Washington study, both those with chronic fatigue and those without, fall below normal in exercise capacity.

Bouchard helped introduce a new study approach by systematically finding and following adult twins who had been separated since their early childhoods.

A recent study by a researcher at the Kent State University found that genetics outweighed environment in social media use using twin study survey data.

Also, genes, studies have found, may play a role; a number of papers, including a 1989 study of five Nordic countries and a 1995 British study, found that the concordance rate among identical twins was as high as 90 percent.

Studies of twins have found that only about 20 percent of aging can be attributed to genes, Belsky said.

«These twin studies show that there's a genetic basis for the differences in how easy or enjoyable children find learning.»

A new study of more than 6000 pairs of twins finds that academic achievement is influenced by genes affecting motivation, personality, confidence, and dozens of other traits, in addition to those that shape intelligence.

Gulati says a study looking at Lupus occurrence in identical twins found that clinical manifestation of the disease occurred in both siblings only 24 percent of cases.

A massive study of twins finds that facial recognition ability is coded in our genes — but few of those genes also affect general intelligence

«This study's findings make a significant contribution to the [field] by using a discordant twin design to address issues about the association between childhood verbal ability and subsequent alcohol use in adolescence and young adulthood,» said Windle.

The team also found the same pattern of results in an independent cohort of almost 1,500 people who were part of the Brisbane Longitudinal Twin Study, suggesting the genetic association in females is a reliable finding.

Some researchers are sceptical, including Steven Rose of the UK's Open University, who is critical of twin studies and of attempts to find genes linked with intelligence.

A study of Danish twins in their 80s found that when a pair has different biological ages, the «older» one was twice as likely to die over the ensuing eight years as the «younger» one.

Another interesting finding from this study was the correlation between twin pregnancies, cesarean delivery, gestational hypertension and a PPCM diagnosis.

Whole Genome Sequencing Not Informative for All A study involving data of thousands of identical twins by Johns Hopkins investigators finds that whole genome sequencing fails to provide informative guidance to most people about their risk for most common diseases, and warns against complacency born of negative genome test results.

WEDNESDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News)-- Among twins whose weight differs markedly at birth, the heavier child is more likely to have conduct problems at ages 3 and 4, a new study finds.

After studying 162 pairs of female twins, scientists have found a connection between how strong their legs were and sustained mental cognition.

A 2016 meta - analysis looked at birth studies conducted over the past 10 years, including some 35,000 twin pregnancies, in an attempt to find the best window of time to deliver two babies with two placentas.