| That is, identical twins are somewhat more concordant than fraternal twins. |
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| A study of identical and fraternal twins separated at birth and adopted into different families showed the same heritability. |
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| Heritability is usually measured by concordance between parents and children, or between identical and fraternal twins. |
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| But some research suggests that parents, teachers, peers and others may treat identical twins more similarly than fraternal twins. |
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| Some even thought of us as fraternal twins because I used to dress just like him and follow him around everywhere he went. |
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| The study found that the identical twins were more similar in personality traits than the fraternal twins. |
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| Comparisons of identical and fraternal twins show that there is a strong genetic component to how people respond to lousy childhood environments. |
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| Identical twins are genetically identical, whereas fraternal twins share half their genes in common. |
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| Ordinary siblings and fraternal twins have only 50 percent of their genes in common. |
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| The scientific term describing fraternal twins by different fathers is heteropaternal superfecundation. |
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| Just a bit further up you have the Modern Art Museum and the Palais de Tokyo, next to one another like fraternal twins. |
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| A higher concordance for disease among the identical than the fraternal twins suggests a genetic component. |
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| Berner and I were fraternal twins — she was six minutes older — and looked nothing alike. |
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| Identical twins are more common than heteropaternal twins, and less common than fraternal twins. |
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| Their fraternal twins, Arjun, a boy, and Tina, a girl, are six. |
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| My doctor saw two sacs, which suggested fraternal twins. |
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| My novel, Mr. Splitfoot, is two novels, fraternal twins. |
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| Katie and Abigail are 23-year-old fraternal twins. |
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| Evidence for genetic factors comes from twin studies where the probability of finding diabetes in both twins is twice as high among identical twins as fraternal twins. |
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| January 11, 2007 The studies compare the degree of concurrence of these disorders in identical and fraternal twins, i.e. genetically-identical and non geneticallyidentical twins. |
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| Studies of patterns of genetic inheritance in families, in identical and fraternal twins, and in adopted individuals, provide information on the extent to which inherited factors play a role in drug dependence. |
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| For fraternal twins, the chances are 10percentt. |
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