How studies of twins can inform our understanding of dental morphology

Frontiers of Oral Biology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2009, Pages 136-141

  Townsend, Grant ^a,b   Hughes, Toby ^a   Bockmann, Michelle ^a   Smith, Richard ^b   Brook, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DENTAL RESEARCH; DENTITION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; TOOTH; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; TWINS;

DENTAL RESEARCH; DENTITION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODONTOGENESIS; TOOTH; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 77649224369     PISSN: 14202433     EISSN: 16623770     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000242406     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (16)

1. Waddington CH: The Strategy of Genes: A Discussion of Some Aspects of Theoretical Biology. London, Allen & Unwin, 1957.
2. Kuhn TS: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1962.
3. Ortony A: The Shift from Metaphor to Analogy in Western Science, ed 2. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
4. MacGregor AJ, Snieder H, Schork NJ, Spector TD: Twins: novel uses to study complex traits and genetic diseases. Trends Genet 2000;16:131-134. (Pubitemid 30122351)
5. Bouchard TJ Jr: Twins reared apart and together: what they tell us about human diversity; in Fox SW (ed): The Chemical and Biological Basis of Individuality. New York, Plenum, 1984, pp 147-178.
6. Townsend G, Richards L, Hughes T, Pinkerton S, Schwerdt W: Epigenetic influences may explain dental differences in monozygotic twin pairs. Aust Dent J 2005;50:95-100. (Pubitemid 40935101)
7. Townsend G, Hughes T, Richards L: The dentitions of monozygotic twin pairs: focusing on the differences rather than the similarities; in Zadzinska E (ed): Current Trends in Dental Morphology Research. Refereed Proceedings, 13th International Symposium on Dental Morphology. Lodz, University of Lodz Press, 2005, pp 337-352.
8. Boklage CE: Developmental differences between singletons and twins in distributions of dental diameter asymmetries. Am J Phys Anthropol 1987;74:319-331. (Pubitemid 18009523)
9. Harris EF: Genetic and environmental influences on tooth crown diameters in twins. 83rd General Session, International Association for Dental Research, Baltimore, 2005.
10. Martin N, Boomsma D, Machin G: A twin-pronged attack on complex traits. Nat Genet 1997;17:387-392. (Pubitemid 27518385)
11. Landy HJ, Keith LG, Keith DM: The vanishing twin. Acta Genet Med Gemellol (Roma) 1982;31:179-194. (Pubitemid 13131186)
12. Townsend G, Richards LC, Brown T: Mirror imaging in the dentitions of twins - what is the biological basis?; in Brown T, Molnar S (eds): Craniofacial Variation in Pacific Populations. Adelaide, The University of Adelaide, Anthropology and Genetics Laboratory, 1992, pp 67-78.
13. Brook AH, Smith RN, Elcock C, Al-Sharood MH, Shah AA, Khalaf K, Robinson DL, Lath DL, Karmo M: The measurement of tooth morphology: development and validation of a new image analysis system; in Zadzinska E (ed): Current Trends in Dental Morphology Research. Lodz, University of Lodz Press, 2005, pp 475-482.
14. Smith R, Zaitoun H, Coxon T, Karma M, Kaur G, Townsend G, Harris E, Brook A: Defining new dental phenotypes using 3-D image analysis to enhance discrimination and insights into biological processes. Archs Oral Biol 2008; in press.
15. Van de Vijver G, Van Speybroeck L, de Waele D: Epigenetics: a challenge for genetics, evolution, and development? Ann NY Acad Sci 2002;981:1-6.
16. Goldberg AD, Allis CD, Bernstein E: Epigenetics: a landscape takes shape. Cell 2007;128:635-638. (Pubitemid 46273578)