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The human twin birth rate in the United States rose 76% from 1980 through 2009, from 9.4 to 16.7 twin sets (18.8 to 33.3 twins) per 1,000 births. [5] The Yoruba people have the highest rate of twinning in the world, at 45–50 twin sets (90–100 twins) per 1,000 live births, [6] [7] [8] possibly because of high consumption of a specific type of yam containing a natural phytoestrogen which may ...
This category contains articles on pairs of identical twins, and people who were born with an identical twin. For the article about multiple births, see Twin. For a list of all twins, identical or otherwise, see List of twins. For other uses of the term Twin, see Twin (disambiguation)
Ella Harper, unnamed twin brother died shortly after birth; Gordon Hayward, twin sister; Jon Heder, identical twin brother; William Randolph Hearst, twin died as an infant; Marilu Henner, twin sister; John Hensley, fraternal twin sister; Alex Hirsch, twin sister; Ryan Howard, twin brother; Sabrina Ionescu, twin brother; Urtzi Iriondo, identical ...
Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited is a 2007 memoir written by identical twins Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein and published by Random House. [1] The authors, born in New York City in 1968 to Leda Witt, daughter of Nathan Witt, were separated as infants, in part, to participate in a "nature versus nurture" twin study ...
American identical twins (2 C, 95 P) B. British identical twins (1 C, 47 P) T. Turkish identical twins (7 P)
After identical twin sisters from Delaware married identical twin brothers from Tennessee, the children they are raising together share in a rare biological phenomenon. When identical twin sisters ...
The 8-year-old identical twins from Los Angeles have quickly amassed quite the internet following -- over 1.5 million on Instagram, to be exact! -- thanks to their gorgeous looks.
Monozygotic twins result from the fertilization of one egg and the division of that single embryo forming two embryos. [4] However, just because a set of twins share the same genetic information, it does not mean they will exhibit the same traits and behaviors. There are different versions of a gene, which are called alleles. How a gene is ...