Twins Reared Apart: Zygotic Division After Artificial Insemination/Twin Research Reviews: Selective Resuscitation of Premature Twins; Scientist Jailed for Editing Twins’ Genes; Sexual Arousal Patterns in MZ Twins Discordant for Sexual Orientation; MZ Twins With Jejuno-Ileal Atresia/Media Reports: Twin Girls’ Search for a Bone Marrow Donor; Puppy with a Possible Parasitic Twin; Twins in Silicon Valley; Surgical Separation of Craniopagus Twins; Twin-Based New Yorker Magazine Cartoon; Twin Tragedies

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-143
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Segal

AbstractThis article opens with the brief life histories of reared-apart monozygotic (MZ) male twins. A New York City program that helped childless couples conceive via artificial insemination from the 1930s to the 1950s is examined as it related to these twins. The frequency with which pregnancies following assisted reproductive technology resulted in MZ twin pairs is also provided. Next, summaries of twin research concerning selective resuscitation, gene editing, sexual arousal and jejuno-ileal atresia are presented. The article ends with media reports of twin girls’ efforts to find a bone marrow donor for their father, possible parasitic twinning in a puppy, identical female twins’ business venture, the surgical separation of craniopagus twins, a twin-themed magazine cartoon and tragic events involving identical male twins.

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Segal ◽  
Beatriz Marcheco-Teruel

I was part of a people-to-people tour of Havana, Cuba during the first week in April 2014. Among the many highlights of that adventure were an informal meeting with Dr Beatriz Marcheco-Teruel, from Cuba's National Center for Medical Genetics, and a visit to the famous ‘Street of Twins’. A fortuitous meeting with parents of twins in the fishing town of Jaimanitas was also an extraordinary event. The Cuban experience is followed by summaries of recent twin research, covering umbilical cord entanglement, the heritability of clubfoot and school separation policies for twins. Media reports include twins reunited at age 78, the future of UCLA's twin basketball players, MZ twins born holding hands, a twin conflict over beer and a pair of American Psychological Association honors for Drs Nancy L. Segal and Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.


2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-369
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Segal

The late neurologist and author, Oliver Sacks, published an insightful 1986 review of Marjorie Wallace's book, The Silent Twins, in the New York Times. Taking exception to his assertion about Sir Francis Galton, I wrote a letter to the Times’ editor. The letter was unpublished, but it brought a wonderful response from Sacks himself that is reproduced and examined. Next, brief reviews of twin research concerning the vanishing twin syndrome (VTS), discordant sex in a monozygotic (MZ) twin pair, and multiple pregnancy outcomes from assisted reproductive technology (ART) are presented. This section is followed by popular coverage of superfetated twins, smoking-discordant co-twins, twins in fashion, Yale University twin hockey players, and a visiting professor who was a conjoined twin.


HLA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Cho ◽  
Zi‐Jing Seng ◽  
Py‐Yu Lin ◽  
Kuo‐Liang Yang

2011 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Froelich ◽  
B. Weschler ◽  
D. Hanau ◽  
A. Parissiadis ◽  
S. Tourne

1999 ◽  
Vol 60 (9) ◽  
pp. 862-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Witt ◽  
P.Hanifi Moghaddam ◽  
R van der Meer ◽  
F Trimboli ◽  
H Ottinger ◽  
...  

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2016 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.-Y. Chen ◽  
W. Zhang ◽  
J.-J. He ◽  
J. He ◽  
F.-M. Zhu

2015 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Hayhurst ◽  
E. D. du Toit ◽  
V. Borrill ◽  
T. E. A. Schlaphoff ◽  
N. Brosnan ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 496-498
Author(s):  
Margaret M. McGovern ◽  
Rosamond Rhodes

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