 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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| 1991 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1992 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 1993 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1994 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 1996 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 1998 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2000 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2001 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2002 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2003 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2004 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2005 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2006 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2007 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2008 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2009 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2010 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2011 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2012 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2014 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2015 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2016 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2018 | 1 | 9 | 10 | | 2019 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2020 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Twins" by people in Profiles.
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DiLalla LF, Pham HT, Corley RP, Wadsworth S, Berenbaum SA. Family Experiences and Parent Personality as Antecedents of Pubertal Timing in Girls and Boys. J Youth Adolesc. 2021 May; 50(5):1017-1033.
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Huggett SB, Winiger EA, Palmer RHC, Hewitt JK, Corley RP, Stallings MC. The structure and subtypes of gambling activities: Genetic, psychiatric and behavioral etiologies of gambling frequency. Addict Behav. 2021 02; 113:106662.
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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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Winiger EA, Huggett SB, Hatoum AS, Friedman NP, Drake CL, Wright KP, Hewitt JK. Onset of regular cannabis use and young adult insomnia: an analysis of shared genetic liability. Sleep. 2020 05 12; 43(5).
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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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Ross JM, Ellingson JM, Rhee SH, Hewitt JK, Corley RP, Lessem JM, Friedman NP. Investigating the causal effect of cannabis use on cognitive function with a quasi-experimental co-twin design. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2020 01 01; 206:107712.
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Wood AC, Vainik U, Engelhardt LE, Briley DA, Grotzinger AD, Church JA, Harden KP, Tucker-Drob EM. Genetic overlap between executive functions and BMI in childhood. Am J Clin Nutr. 2019 10 01; 110(4):814-822.
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Winiger EA, Huggett SB, Hatoum AS, Stallings MC, Hewitt JK. Onset of regular cannabis use and adult sleep duration: Genetic variation and the implications of a predictive relationship. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2019 11 01; 204:107517.
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Huggett SB, Keyes M, Iacono WG, McGue M, Corley RP, Hewitt JK, Stallings MC. Age of initiation and transition times to tobacco dependence: Early onset and rapid escalated use increase risk for dependence severity. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2019 09 01; 202:104-110.
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