 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 | 5 | 0 | 5 | | 1993 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1994 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 1996 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 1997 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 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 | 3 | 8 | | 2005 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2006 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2007 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2008 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2009 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2010 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2011 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2012 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2014 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2015 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2016 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2018 | 1 | 8 | 9 | | 2019 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Twins" by people in Profiles.
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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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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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Silventoinen K, Jelenkovic A, Latvala A, Yokoyama Y, Sund R, Sugawara M, Tanaka M, Matsumoto S, Aaltonen S, Piirtola M, Freitas DL, Maia JA, Öncel SY, Aliev F, Ji F, Ning F, Pang Z, Rebato E, Saudino KJ, Cutler TL, Hopper JL, Ullemar V, Almqvist C, Magnusson PKE, Cozen W, Hwang AE, Mack TM, Willemsen G, Bartels M, van Beijsterveldt CEM, Nelson TL, Whitfield KE, Sung J, Kim J, Lee J, Lee S, Llewellyn CH, Fisher A, Medda E, Nisticò L, Toccaceli V, Baker LA, Tuvblad C, Corley RP, Huibregtse BM, Derom CA, Vlietinck RF, Loos RJF, Knafo-Noam A, Mankuta D, Abramson L, Burt SA, Klump KL, Silberg JL, Maes HH, Krueger RF, McGue M, Pahlen S, Gatz M, Butler DA, Harris JR, Nilsen TS, Harden KP, Tucker-Drob EM, Franz CE, Kremen WS, Lyons MJ, Lichtenstein P, Jeong HU, Hur YM, Boomsma DI, Sørensen TIA, Kaprio J. Parental Education and Genetics of BMI from Infancy to Old Age: A Pooled Analysis of 29 Twin Cohorts. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2019 05; 27(5):855-865.
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Woodward KE, Corley RP, Friedman NP, Hatoum AS, Hewitt JK, Huibregtse BM, Stallings MC, Rhee SH. Childhood language development and later alcohol use behaviors. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2019 05 01; 198:95-99.
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Matherne CE, Munn-Chernoff MA, Thornton LM, Rhee SH, Lin S, Corley RP, Stallings MC, Hewitt JK. Perceived family functioning among adolescents with and without loss of control eating. Eat Behav. 2019 04; 33:18-22.
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Huggett SB, Winiger EA, Corley RP, Hewitt JK, Stallings MC. Alcohol use, psychiatric disorders and gambling behaviors: A multi-sample study testing causal relationships via the co-twin control design. Addict Behav. 2019 06; 93:173-179.
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Ellingson JM, Corley R, Hewitt JK, Friedman NP. A prospective study of alcohol involvement and the dual-systems model of adolescent risk-taking during late adolescence and emerging adulthood. Addiction. 2019 04; 114(4):653-661.
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Minica CC, Verweij KJH, van der Most PJ, Mbarek H, Bernard M, van Eijk KR, Lind PA, Liu MZ, Maciejewski DF, Palviainen T, Sánchez-Mora C, Sherva R, Taylor M, Walters RK, Abdellaoui A, Bigdeli TB, Branje SJT, Brown SA, Casas M, Corley RP, Davey-Smith G, Davies GE, Ehli EA, Farrer L, Fedko IO, Garcia-Martínez I, Gordon SD, Hartman CA, Heath AC, Hickie IB, Hickman M, Hopfer CJ, Hottenga JJ, Kahn RS, Kaprio J, Korhonen T, Kranzler HR, Krauter K, van Lier PAC, Madden PAF, Medland SE, Neale MC, Meeus WHJ, Montgomery GW, Nolte IM, Oldehinkel AJ, Pausova Z, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Richarte V, Rose RJ, Shin J, Stallings MC, Wall TL, Ware JJ, Wright MJ, Zhao H, Koot HM, Paus T, Hewitt JK, Ribasés M, Loukola A, Boks MP, Snieder H, Munafò MR, Gelernter J, Boomsma DI, Martin NG, Gillespie NA, Vink JM, Derks EM. Genome-wide association meta-analysis of age at first cannabis use. Addiction. 2018 11; 113(11):2073-2086.
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Triolo TM, Fouts A, Pyle L, Yu L, Gottlieb PA, Steck AK. Identical and Nonidentical Twins: Risk and Factors Involved in Development of Islet Autoimmunity and Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2019 02; 42(2):192-199.
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