"Twins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Two individuals derived from two FETUSES that were fertilized at or about the same time, developed in the UTERUS simultaneously, and born to the same mother. Twins are either monozygotic (TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC) or dizygotic (TWINS, DIZYGOTIC).
| Descriptor ID |
D014427
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| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.438.873
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1995 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2000 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2009 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Twins" by people in Profiles.
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Fecal microbiome and metabolome differ in healthy and food-allergic twins. J Clin Invest. 2021 01 19; 131(2).
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Mucolipidosis Type II Affecting 1 Fetus and Placental Disk of a Dichorionic-Diamnionic Twin Gestation: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Int J Gynecol Pathol. 2019 Jul; 38(4):346-352.
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Criterion Validity and Utility of the General Factor of Psychopathology in Childhood: Predictive Associations With Independently Measured Severe Adverse Mental Health Outcomes in Adolescence. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2018 06; 57(6):372-383.
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Reduced frontal grey matter, life history of aggression, and underlying genetic influence. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging. 2018 01 30; 271:126-134.
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Socioeconomic status and genetic influences on cognitive development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 12 19; 114(51):13441-13446.
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Relative Immaturity in Childhood and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms From Childhood to Early Adulthood: Exploring Genetic and Environmental Overlap Across Development. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2016 10; 55(10):886-95.
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Discontinuity in the genetic and environmental causes of the intellectual disability spectrum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 01 26; 113(4):1098-103.
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Abundant contribution of short tandem repeats to gene expression variation in humans. Nat Genet. 2016 Jan; 48(1):22-9.
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The Effects of Poor Neonatal Health on Children's Cognitive Development. Am Econ Rev. 2014 Dec; 104(12):3921-55.
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Genetic complexity of episodic memory: a twin approach to studies of aging. Psychol Aging. 2014 Jun; 29(2):404-17.