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Onset of Puberty in MZ and DZ Twins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Siv Fischbein
Siv Fischbein*
Affiliation:
Department of Educational Research, School of Education, Stockholm, Sweden

Abstract

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A twin study on the significance of genetic factors for the variation in peak height and peak weight velocity, as well as in age at menarche and the development of secondary sex characteristics, is presented. Evidence of a rather strong genetic regulation of the occurrence of puberty was obtained in the analysis. The maximal height or weight gain (in cm/year or kg/year) seems to be, at least in girls, less influenced by genetic factors than the age at which it appears.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 1977 , pp. 151 - 157
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1977

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