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Weight Increase in Twins in the First Year of Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

A. Alfieri  and
I. Gatti
A. Alfieri*
Affiliation:
Istituto di Genetica Medica, e Gemellologia Gregorio Mendel, Roma
I. Gatti
Affiliation:
Istituto di Genetica Medica, e Gemellologia Gregorio Mendel, Roma
*
Istituto Mendel, Piazza Galeno 5, 00161 Roma, Italy

Abstract

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A study of weight increase in the first year of life has been carried out on a sample of 50 MZ and 50 DZ twin pairs of both sexes, as compared to a similar sample of singletons. The results show that weight increase, as examined at different stages in the first year of life, undergoes significant hereditary conditioning (H ≃ 0.60).

Type
7. Free Contributions: Third Group
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 23 , supplement S1 , January 1974 , pp. 285 - 288
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1974