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Studies on Twins I. Typhoid Favours Cotwins1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

H. K. Goswami
H. K. Goswami*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Botany, Govt. Degree College, Narsinghgarh

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The experimental cotwin control method by means of 34 MZ pairs, of which only one cotwin of each pair suffered from typhoid disease, offered excellent opportunities to study the after effects of typhoid incidence on the anthropometric, mental and physical traits of individuals. Comparison among 56 MZ pairs reveals that typhoid brings out certain significant changes in these traits.

Increase of intelligence has already been shown, due to increased quantity of RNA. Whether or not typhoid incidence after a period of approximately 7 months influences the rapid synthesis of RNA would be a good field of biochemical investigation of immunogenetical interest.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , October 1967 , pp. 402 - 409
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1967

Footnotes

1

Greater part was worked out at Govt. Higher Secondary School Agar (M.P.)

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