 Twins
"Twins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Two individuals derived from two FETUSES that were fertilized at or about the same time, developed in the UTERUS simultaneously, and born to the same mother. Twins are either monozygotic (TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC) or dizygotic (TWINS, DIZYGOTIC).
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D014427
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| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.438.873
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Twins" by people in this website by year, and whether "Twins" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1992 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1993 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1998 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2000 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2002 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2004 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2005 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2006 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2007 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2008 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2009 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2010 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2012 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2014 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2015 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2016 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2018 | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 2019 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2020 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2021 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Twins" by people in Profiles.
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Arnett AB, McGrath LM, Flaherty BP, Pennington BF, Willcutt EG. Heritability and Clinical Characteristics of Neuropsychological Profiles in Youth With and Without Elevated ADHD Symptoms. J Atten Disord. 2022 Sep; 26(11):1422-1436.
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Gustavson DE, Friedman NP, Stallings MC, Reynolds CA, Coon H, Corley RP, Hewitt JK, Gordon RL. Musical instrument engagement in adolescence predicts verbal ability 4 years later: A twin and adoption study. Dev Psychol. 2021 Nov; 57(11):1943-1957.
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Freis SM, Morrison CL, Lessem JM, Hewitt JK, Friedman NP. Genetic and environmental influences on executive functions and intelligence in middle childhood. Dev Sci. 2022 01; 25(1):e13150.
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Friedman NP, Banich MT, Keller MC. Twin studies to GWAS: there and back again. Trends Cogn Sci. 2021 10; 25(10):855-869.
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Menardi A, Reineberg AE, Vallesi A, Friedman NP, Banich MT, Santarnecchi E. Heritability of brain resilience to perturbation in humans. Neuroimage. 2021 07 15; 235:118013.
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Kim Y, Balbona JV, Keller MC. Bias and Precision of Parameter Estimates from Models Using Polygenic Scores to Estimate Environmental and Genetic Parental Influences. Behav Genet. 2021 05; 51(3):279-288.
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Huibregtse BM, Hatoum AS, Corley RP, Rhea SA, Hewitt JK, Stallings MC. Etiological Overlap Between Sex Under the Influence and Number of Lifetime Sexual Partners. Behav Genet. 2021 01; 51(1):12-29.
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Larsen SA, Little CW, Grasby K, Byrne B, Olson RK, Coventry WL. The Academic Development Study of Australian Twins (ADSAT): Research Aims and Design. Twin Res Hum Genet. 2020 06; 23(3):165-173.
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Reineberg AE, Hatoum AS, Hewitt JK, Banich MT, Friedman NP. Genetic and Environmental Influence on the Human Functional Connectome. Cereb Cortex. 2020 04 14; 30(4):2099-2113.
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Zellers SM, Corley R, Thibodeau E, Kirkpatrick R, Elkins I, Iacono WG, Hopfer C, Hewitt JK, McGue M, Vrieze S. Adolescent Externalizing Psychopathology and Its Prospective Relationship to Marijuana Use Development from Age 14 to 30: Replication Across Independent Longitudinal Twin Samples. Behav Genet. 2020 05; 50(3):139-151.
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