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Chronogenetics: A Meeting Point for Medicine and Twin Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Luigi Gedda
Luigi Gedda*
Affiliation:
The Gregor Mendel Institute of Medical Geneticsand Twin Research, Rome

Abstract

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The program of any individual's vital cycle encoded in the genetic information is executed according to a time schedule that is the object of study of Chronogenetics. MZ twins provide the best evidence of the existence of this hereditary biological time and they represent, therefore, the natural test of Chronogenetics. Twin research can thus serve medicine in developing its most modern perspective, individual preventive medicine. Moreover, through approaches such as the Twins-Living-Apart Test, twin research can help to identify the influences of the environment on the health of man.

Keywords

ChronogeneticsPreventive medicineTwins living apart
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , July 1984 , pp. 343 - 347
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1984