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• A study published in the current issue of Journal of Personality studied adult male monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins to find that difference in religiousness are influenced by both genes and environment. Genetics and the Future of Religion, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• Of 5,597 monozygotic twin pairs where both were alive and had provided usable responses to CFS screening questions, we identified 140 pairs of twins who met preliminary inclusion criteria: born 1935-1985, classified as a monozygotic twin based on questionnaire responses PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
• The researchers tested for genetic influences by comparing the experiences of monozygotic twins, who share all their genes, and dizygotic twins, who share considerably fewer genes.
• When prenatal environment is similar for monozygotic twins they will possess nearly identical finger ridge configuration.
• The incidence of identical twins (or monozygotic, meaning they come from one fertilised egg) remains constant across ages and populations. Times, Sunday Times
• A trait or disease is called heritable if monozygotic twins are more similar to each other than dizygotic twins. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
• One thousand and seventy three pairs of adult monozygotic (MZ) twins and 895 pairs of same sex adult dizygotic (DZ) twins from the United Kingdom (UK) completed the Humor Styles Questionnaire: a 32-item measure which assesses two positive and two negative styles of humor. Archive 2008-08-01
• Twin studies have shown that the incidence of asthma is significantly higher in monozygotic twins than dizygotic twins 27-29.
• Each of three measures of face-specific processing was heritable, i.e., more correlated in monozygotic than dizygotic twins: face-specific recognition ability, the face-inversion effect [2], and the composite-face effect [3]. Is Facial Recognition A Non-g Factor Mental Module?
• Because monozygotic twins presumably have identical genes, any dermatoglyphic differences between them must be due to differences in prenatal environmental experiences.