New sources of reared apart twins; research reviews: Female fitness in male-female twin pairs, heritability of olfactory thresholds and the twelfth international twin congress; multiple birth conceptions: Rethinking things; double donations

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 786-790

  Segal, Nancy L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTED CHILD; CONCEPTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FITNESS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING;

CHILD REARING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OHIO; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEX FACTORS; SMELL; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC; TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 35349024756     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.10.5.786     Document Type: Conference Paper

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