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Twins Living Apart Test: Progress Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

L. Gedda  and
G. Brenci
L. Gedda*
Affiliation:
The Gregor Mendel Institute of Medical Genetics and Gemellology, Rome
G. Brenci
Affiliation:
The Gregor Mendel Institute of Medical Genetics and Gemellology, Rome
*
The Mendel Institute, Piazza Galeno 5, 00161 Rome, Italy

Abstract

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A new approach is proposed in twin research based on the study of twins who, though reared together, have subsequently lived apart for a period of at least five years. With respect to the more powerful study of twins reared apart, the twins living apart test has the advantages of being more realistic and affording easier access to sufficiently large samples. In this pilot study, the test has been applied to a sample of 92 monozygotic pairs now aged 35–45; 15 pairs were still living together and 77 had lived apart for over five years. As a first approach, comparisons have been made, in the cotwins of the two subsamples, with respect to the following traits: height, weight, presbyopia, presbyacusia, alcohol consumption, tobacco consumption, blood pressure (systolic and diastolic), dental caries, and hours of sleep.

Keywords

Separated twinsAging pathologyChronogeneticsAnthropometrySubstance exposureBlood pressureDental cariesEnvironmentEcology
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 17 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1983

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