How To Use Monozygotic In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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.
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When prenatal environment is similar for monozygotic twins they will possess nearly identical finger ridge configuration.
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The incidence of identical twins (or monozygotic, meaning they come from one fertilised egg) remains constant across ages and populations.
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A trait or disease is called heritable if monozygotic twins are more similar to each other than dizygotic twins.
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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
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Twin studies have shown that the incidence of asthma is significantly higher in monozygotic twins than dizygotic twins 27-29.
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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?
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Because monozygotic twins presumably have identical genes, any dermatoglyphic differences between them must be due to differences in prenatal environmental experiences.
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The mother assumed that she had given birth to fraternal twins (dizygotic, from two eggs) and not "identical" ones (monozygotic, two embryos developed from a single fertilized egg).
Separated At Birth. Really.
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And most of us have probably ingested meat and dairy products from livestock cloned by natural reproduction (monozygotic siblings), mechanical embryo-splitting or even nuclear transfer from an embryonic donor cell into an enucleated oocyte.
The Cloned Cow Has Left the Barn
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These reports indicate concordance rates of over 50% for monozygotic twin pairs compared with under 10% for dizygotic twins.
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The concordance rate of obsessive-compulsive disorder is also higher for monozygotic twins than it is for dizygotic twins which suggest that there is a genetic component to this disease.
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In contrast, we present here evidence for cognitive “specialist genes”: monozygotic twins are more similar than dizygotic twins in the specific cognitive ability of face perception.
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In the switched-baby cases Ms. Segal discusses, it is highly unlikely that the error would have been discovered were it not for the fact that the twins were monozygotic and thus had a striking physical resemblance.
Separated At Birth. Really.
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Three-banded armadillos developed a unique antipredator strategy by entirely rolling up into a ball, and nine-banded armadillos are the only vertebrates to reproduce by obligate monozygotic polyembryony.
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monozygotic twins
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But births of monozygotic twins are rare, roughly one in 300.
Separated At Birth. Really.
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Since this type of dermatoglyphic model is based on an analysis of genetically identical individuals (monozygotic twins), it provides a marker for prenatal environmental causality independent of genetic causality.
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The monozygotic twin material consisted of both concordant and discordant twin pairs, and some unpaired healthy twins.
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And most of us have probably ingested meat and dairy products from livestock cloned by natural reproduction (monozygotic siblings), mechanical embryo-splitting or even nuclear transfer from an embryonic donor cell into an enucleated oocyte.
The Cloned Cow Has Left the Barn
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Therefore although I might call them "monozygotic" I wouldn't agree that they were "identical.
Identical Boy-Girl Twins
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However, these studies may have overestimated the effect of genetics if monozygotic twins share exposure to more environmental effects than dizygotic twins do.
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In this article, we report the results of two independently conceived and executed studies of monozygotic and dizygotic twins, one in Sweden and one in the United States.
Archive 2008-03-01
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There are many instances recorded in Earth history of apparent telepathic links between monozygotic twins, but fewer of such links between heterozygotic twins, who are born together but are genetically different.
Spock Must Die
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Another result concerning handedness of the progeny of discordant monozygotic twins suggests that lefties are one gene apart from righties.
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In "A Genetic Study of Male Sexual Orientation," a study that has now achieved almost as much renown as LeVay's, the Northwestern University psychologist Michael Bailey and Boston University's Richard Pillard compared fifty-six "monozygotic" twins (identical twins, from the same zygote, or fertilized egg), fifty-four "dizygotic" (fraternal) twins, and fifty-seven genetically unrelated adopted brothers.
Homosexuality and Biology
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Classical liberals (libertarians, basically) accept that only monozygotic twins are “created equal” and that even these will diverge as they mature.
The Volokh Conspiracy » 4. On a Bus in Kiev
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In most twin studies, the twins themselves (or their parents) report "twin type" - i.e., whether the twins are identical (monozygotic/MZ) or fraternal (dizygotic/DZ).
EconLog: Economic Methods Archives
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And most of us have probably ingested meat and dairy products from livestock cloned by natural reproduction (monozygotic siblings), mechanical embryo-splitting or even nuclear transfer from an embryonic donor cell into an enucleated oocyte.
The Cloned Cow Has Left the Barn
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The mother assumed that she had given birth to fraternal twins (dizygotic, from two eggs) and not "identical" ones (monozygotic, two embryos developed from a single fertilized egg).
Separated At Birth. Really.
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Two well conducted and well controlled studies show that refractive errors are much more strongly correlated in monozygotic twins than in dizygotic twins.
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Monozygotic twins , on the other hand , arise from the same fertilized egg.
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These reports indicate concordance rates of over 50% for monozygotic twin pairs compared with under 10% for dizygotic twins.
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For the correlation analysis, 20 unrelated couples were formed by randomly matching one monozygotic twin with one dizygotic twin.
