"Twins, Dizygotic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Two offspring from the same PREGNANCY. They are from two OVA, fertilized at about the same time by two SPERMATOZOA. Such twins are genetically distinct and can be of different sexes.
Descriptor ID |
D014429
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MeSH Number(s) |
M01.438.873.920
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Concept/Terms |
Twins, Dizygotic- Twins, Dizygotic
- Dizygotic Twin
- Dizygotic Twins
- Twin, Dizygotic
- Twins, Fraternal
- Fraternal Twin
- Fraternal Twins
- Twin, Fraternal
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2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Twins, Dizygotic" by people in Profiles.
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VATER/VACTERL association: identification of seven new twin pairs, a systematic review of the literature, and a classical twin analysis. Clin Dysmorphol. 2012 Oct; 21(4):191-195.
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Heritability of baseline and induced micronucleus frequencies. Mutagenesis. 2011 Jan; 26(1):111-7.
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Dizygotic twins discordant for HIV-1 despite vertical transmission prophylaxis: was human leukocyte antigen homozygosity of disadvantage to the infected twin? AIDS. 2010 Sep 10; 24(14):2295-6.
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Spatial, temporal and interindividual epigenetic variation of functionally important DNA methylation patterns. Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jul; 38(12):3880-90.