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dizygotic twin

NOUN
  1. either of two twins who developed from two separate fertilized eggs

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  • Dizygotic twins are known by which common name? Times, Sunday Times
  • Increasing use of fertility drugs is almost certainly the main cause of the recent increase in dizygotic twinning in most developed countries.
  • Dizygotic twins arise from two separate eggs fertilized by two spermatozoa.
  • The one success was our third patient, a dizygotic twin who received a sublethal, non-marrow requiring, dose of total body X-ray, given by Dr. James B. Dealy, followed by a kidney graft from his twin brother in 1959. Joseph E. Murray - Nobel Lecture
  • From twin studies, the concordance rate is estimated at 57 percent for monozygous twins and 14 percent for dizygotic twins.
  • However, these studies may have overestimated the effect of genetics if monozygotic twins share exposure to more environmental effects than dizygotic twins do.
  • In this article, we report the results of two independently conceived and executed studies of monozygotic and dizygotic twins, one in Sweden and one in the United States. Archive 2008-03-01
  • Hamburger group in Paris subsequently ad a similar success with a dizygotic twin recipient following sublethal X-ray treatment. Joseph E. Murray - Nobel Lecture
  • Dizygotic twins are known by which common name? Times, Sunday Times
  • Two well conducted and well controlled studies show that refractive errors are much more strongly correlated in monozygotic twins than in dizygotic twins.
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