Natural selection on human twinning [6]

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6693, 1998, Pages 533-534

  Lummaa, Virpi ^a   Haukioja, Erkki ^a   Lemmetyinen, Risto ^a   Pikkola, Mirja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUCASIAN; DATA ANALYSIS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FINLAND; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWINS;

FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SELECTION (GENETICS); TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC;

EID: 0032490941     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/28977     Document Type: Letter

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