"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).
| Descriptor ID |
D014427
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| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.438.873
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Twins" by people in Profiles.
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Boghossian NS, Saha S, Bell EF, Brumbaugh JE, Shankaran S, Carlo WA, Das A. Birth weight discordance in very low birth weight twins: mortality, morbidity, and neurodevelopment. J Perinatol. 2019 09; 39(9):1229-1240.
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Bell E, Kandler C, Riemann R. Genetic and Environmental Influences on Sociopolitical Attitudes: Addressing Some Gaps in the New Paradigm. Politics Life Sci. 2018 12 04; 37(2):236-249.
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Bell E, Kandler C, Riemann R. Genetic and environmental influences on sociopolitical attitudes. Politics Life Sci. 2018; 37(2):236-249.
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Silberg JL, Gillespie N, Moore AA, Eaves LJ, Bates J, Aggen S, Pfister E, Canino G. Shared genetic and environmental influences on early temperament and preschool psychiatric disorders in Hispanic twins. Twin Res Hum Genet. 2015 Apr; 18(2):171-8.
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Mulla ZD, Plavsic SK, Ortiz M, Nuwayhid BS, Ananth CV. Fetal sex pairing and adverse perinatal outcomes in twin gestations. Ann Epidemiol. 2013 Jan; 23(1):7-12.
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Lange NE, Bunyavanich S, Silberg JL, Canino G, Rosner BA, Celed?n JC. Parental psychosocial stress and asthma morbidity in Puerto Rican twins. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2011 Mar; 127(3):734-40.e1-7.
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Salihu HM, Ibrahimou B, Dagne GA. Intra-uterine exposure to dual fetal programming sequences among surviving co-twins. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2011 Jan; 24(1):96-103.
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Whitfield KE, Edwards CL, Brandon D, McDougald C. Genetic and environmental influences on depressive symptoms by age and gender in African American twins. Aging Ment Health. 2008 Mar; 12(2):221-7.
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Kendal-Wright CE, Hubbard D, Bryant-Greenwood GD. Chronic stretching of amniotic epithelial cells increases pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor (PBEF/visfatin) expression and protects them from apoptosis. Placenta. 2008 Mar; 29(3):255-65.
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Sanderson M, Daling JR, Doody DR, Malone KE. Perinatal factors and mortality from breast cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2006 Oct; 15(10):1984-7.