"Twins, Dizygotic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Two offspring from the same PREGNANCY. They are from two OVA, fertilized at about the same time by two SPERMATOZOA. Such twins are genetically distinct and can be of different sexes.
| Descriptor ID |
D014429
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| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.438.873.920
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| Concept/Terms |
Twins, Dizygotic- Twins, Dizygotic
- Dizygotic Twin
- Dizygotic Twins
- Twin, Dizygotic
- Twins, Fraternal
- Fraternal Twin
- Fraternal Twins
- Twin, Fraternal
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Twins, Dizygotic" by people in Profiles.
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Twins Separated at Birth: Across a Country and Around the World/Twin Research: Memorial Tribute to Isaac Blickstein, MD; Infanticide and Sacrifice of Archaic-Aged Twins and Triplets; Prehistoric Twin Burials; Highlights from a Conference on Three Identical Strangers/Media Reports: An Atypical Twin Father; An Actor's Twin Brother; Twin Link to Tulsa, Oklahoma Massacre; Superfetated Twins; Twin Comedians and Script Writers; Indian Twins' Loss to COVID-19. Twin Res Hum Genet. 2021 08; 24(4):244-250.
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Self-Reported Symptoms of COVID-19, Including Symptoms Most Predictive of SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Are Heritable. Twin Res Hum Genet. 2020 12; 23(6):316-321.
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Vertical transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection and preterm birth. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2020 Dec; 39(12):2441-2445.
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Genetic and environmental susceptibility to food allergy in a registry of twins. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2019 Nov - Dec; 7(8):2916-2918.
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Predictive accuracy of Southwest Thames Obstetric Research Collaborative (STORK) chorionicity-specific twin growth charts for stillbirth: a validation study. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2019 02; 53(2):193-199.
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Selective IUGR in dichorionic twins: what can Doppler assessment and growth discordancy say about neonatal outcomes? J Perinat Med. 2018 Nov 27; 46(9):1028-1034.
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Definitive Zygosity Scores in the Peas in the Pod Questionnaire is a Sensitive and Accurate Assessment of the Zygosity of Adult Twins. Twin Res Hum Genet. 2018 04; 21(2):146-154.
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Is umbilical coiling genetically determined? J Perinatol. 2018 06; 38(6):653-657.
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Heritability of Addison's disease and prevalence of associated autoimmunity in a cohort of 112,100 Swedish twins. Endocrine. 2017 Dec; 58(3):521-527.
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Differences in genetic and environmental variation in adult BMI by sex, age, time period, and region: an individual-based pooled analysis of 40 twin cohorts. Am J Clin Nutr. 2017 Aug; 106(2):457-466.