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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M01.438.873
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1996 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1998 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2001 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2002 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2004 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2005 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2006 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2007 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2008 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2009 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2010 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2011 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2012 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2014 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2018 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 2019 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 2020 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 2021 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 2022 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2024 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Twins" by people in Profiles.
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Gustavson DE, Borriello GA, Karhadkar MA, Rhee SH, Corley RP, Rhea SA, DiLalla LF, Wadsworth SJ, Friedman NP, Reynolds CA. Stability of general cognitive ability from infancy to adulthood: A combined twin and genomic investigation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 May 27; 122(21):e2426531122.
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Campbell MA, Grove NC, McDuffie RS, Auer EA, McReynolds AJ, McCourt EA, Wymore EM, Mandava N, Wagner BD, Mathias MT, Oliver SCN, Jung JL, Lynch AM. The relationship between discordant birth weight in twin pairs and the development of retinopathy of prematurity. J AAPOS. 2025 Feb; 29(1):104095.
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Bruellman R, Pahlen S, Ellingson JM, Corley RP, Wadsworth SJ, Reynolds CA. A twin-driven analysis on early aging biomarkers and associations with sitting-time and physical activity. PLoS One. 2024; 19(9):e0308660.
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Gustavson DE, Stern EF, Reynolds CA, Grotzinger AD, Corley RP, Wadsworth SJ, Rhee SH, Friedman NP. Evidence for strong genetic correlations among internalizing psychopathology and related self-reported measures using both genomic and twin/adoptive approaches. J Psychopathol Clin Sci. 2024 Jul; 133(5):347-357.
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Zellers S, Alexander J, Ellingson JM, Schaefer JD, Corley RP, Iacono W, Hewitt JK, Hopfer CJ, McGue MK, Vrieze S. Limited psychological and social effects of lifetime cannabis use frequency: Evidence from a 30-year community study of 4,078 twins. J Psychopathol Clin Sci. 2024 Jan; 133(1):115-128.
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Freis SM, Alexander JD, Anderson JE, Corley RP, De La Vega AI, Gustavson DE, Vrieze SI, Friedman NP. Associations between executive functions assessed in different contexts in a genetically informative sample. J Exp Psychol Gen. 2024 Jan; 153(1):70-85.
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Paulich KN, Freis SM, Dokuru DR, Alexander JD, Vrieze SI, Corley RP, McGue M, Hewitt JK, Stallings MC. Exploring Relationships Between Internalizing Problems and Risky Sexual Behavior: A Twin Study. Behav Genet. 2023 07; 53(4):331-347.
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Maes HHM, Lapato DM, Schmitt JE, Luciana M, Banich MT, Bjork JM, Hewitt JK, Madden PA, Heath AC, Barch DM, Thompson WK, Iacono WG, Neale MC. Genetic and Environmental Variation in Continuous Phenotypes in the ABCD Study?. Behav Genet. 2023 02; 53(1):1-24.
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Martinez KM, Holden LR, Hart SA, Taylor J. Examining mindset and grit in concurrent and future reading comprehension: A twin study. Dev Psychol. 2022 Nov; 58(11):2171-2183.
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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 09; 26(11):1422-1436.
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