How To Use fraternal twin In A Sentence
- The disease occurs in 30% of identical twins but in only 5% of fraternal twins.
- fraternal twins are biovular
- A study of identical and fraternal twins separated at birth and adopted into different families showed the same heritability.
- If the development of a certain disease is due to heredity, then genetic researchers would expect more of the identical twins to share the disease as compared to the same-sex fraternal twins.
- The relative frequency of fraternal twins has halved since 1950.
- Heritability is usually measured by concordance between parents and children, or between identical and fraternal twins.
- Some even thought of us as fraternal twins because I used to dress just like him and follow him around everywhere he went.
- The study found that the identical twins were more similar in personality traits than the fraternal twins.
- Another study, published in the same issue of the journal and examining autism in pairs of identical and fraternal twins, finds that environmental factors play a greater role than previously believed in the development of autism, underscoring the need to understand nongenetic causes of autism. Studies Examine Autism's Link to Antidepressants, Other Factors
- One particularly good test system with which to quantify disease heritability is a twin study, in which disease frequency is compared between cohorts of identical twins and fraternal twins.
