 Twins
"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).
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D014427
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| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.438.873
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Twins" by people in this website by year, and whether "Twins" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Twins" by people in Profiles.
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Hede SV, Olarte L, Chandramohan L, Kaplan SL, Hulten KG. Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus infection in twin infants. J Clin Microbiol. 2015 Apr; 53(4):1419-22.
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Grundberg E, Meduri E, Sandling JK, Hedman AK, Keildson S, Buil A, Busche S, Yuan W, Nisbet J, Sekowska M, Wilk A, Barrett A, Small KS, Ge B, Caron M, Shin SY, Lathrop M, Dermitzakis ET, McCarthy MI, Spector TD, Bell JT, Deloukas P. Global analysis of DNA methylation variation in adipose tissue from twins reveals links to disease-associated variants in distal regulatory elements. Am J Hum Genet. 2013 Nov 07; 93(5):876-90.
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Nica AC, Parts L, Glass D, Nisbet J, Barrett A, Sekowska M, Travers M, Potter S, Grundberg E, Small K, Hedman AK, Bataille V, Tzenova Bell J, Surdulescu G, Dimas AS, Ingle C, Nestle FO, di Meglio P, Min JL, Wilk A, Hammond CJ, Hassanali N, Yang TP, Montgomery SB, O'Rahilly S, Lindgren CM, Zondervan KT, Soranzo N, Barroso I, Durbin R, Ahmadi K, Deloukas P, McCarthy MI, Dermitzakis ET, Spector TD. The architecture of gene regulatory variation across multiple human tissues: the MuTHER study. PLoS Genet. 2011 Feb 03; 7(2):e1002003.
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Manco-Johnson MJ, Marlar RA, Jacobson LJ, Hays T, Warady BA. Severe protein C deficiency in newborn infants. J Pediatr. 1988 Aug; 113(2):359-63.
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