Genetic modelling of dizygotic twinning
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Meulemans, Wim J.; Lewis, Cathryn M.; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Derom, Catherine A.; V
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The inheritance of spontaneous dizygotic (DZ) twinning was investigated in 1,422 threegeneration pedigrees ascertained through mothers of spontaneous DZ proband twins. DZ twinning was modelled as a trait expressed only in women. The penetrance was modelled first as a parity independent and secondly