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A Few Remarks on an Oculistic and Orthoptic Screening of 61 Monozygotic Twin Pairs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

R. Barbati-Crouzet
R. Barbati-Crouzet*
Affiliation:
Institut de Génétique Médicale et Gémellologie G. Mendel, Rome
*
Istituto Mendel, Piazza Galeno 5, 00161 Roma, Italy

Abstract

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An oculistic and orthoptic screening has been carried out on a sample of 122 twins aged 6 to 10 years (31 MZ male and 30 MZ female pairs). A few remarks could be made, concerning both twins as such and the heritability of the traits under examination. The twins appear to differ from the general population of singletons of the same age on account of a lower frequency of ametropia and strabismus as well as of a high frequency of epicanthus.

Type
7. Twin Studies in Medical and Clinical Genetics
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 1976 , pp. 295
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1976