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Twin Studies in Genetics1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Luigi Gedda
Luigi Gedda*
Affiliation:
The Gregor Mendel Institute of Medical Geneticsand Twin Research, Rome, Italy
*
Piazza Galeno 5, 00161 Rome, Italy

Summary

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Almost one century after Galton's first scientific formulation of the Twin Method, based on the comparison of MZ and DZ twin series, not only twin studies play a fundamental role and the Interzygotic Test is widely applied in human and especially medical genetic research, but new methods have also been worked out, such as the Azygotic Test and the Twin Clinical Method.

Moreover, the study of twins has more recently led to new insights into the study of biological times, with the development of the modern branch of Chronogenetics.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , July 1972 , pp. 265 - 269
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1972

Footnotes

1

Lecture given to the International Seminar on Human Reproduction, held in Petah Tiqva, Israel, on 21 September 1972, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Research Institute of Human Reproduction and Fetal Development of the Tel-Aviv University Medical School and Hasharon Hospital, Petah Tiqva, Israel.

References

1 Lecture given to the International Seminar on Human Reproduction, held in Petah Tiqva, Israel, on 21 September 1972, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Research Institute of Human Reproduction and Fetal Development of the Tel-Aviv University Medical School and Hasharon Hospital, Petah Tiqva, Israel.