identical twin

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Genetics
accession number
adenine
anaphase
autosomal
autosomally
dizygotic
genetic fingerprinting
genetically
genetically engineered
geneticist
genic
genomic
genomics
mutate
non-Darwinian
non-familial
non-genetic
non-mutant
nondominant
sex-linked

Examples of monozygotic

monozygotic
A consistent finding from these studies is the lack of complete concordance among monozygotic twins for many disorders that are known to be inherited.
Learning and memory in monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia.
Concordance rates differed significantly across monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs for broadly defined self-reported anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
A controlled study of brain structure in monozygotic twins concordant for schizophrenia.
The importance of environmental influences is further supported by the observation of phenotypic differences in the lesions of monozygotic twins.
These studies compare the occurrence of an illness in monozygotic and dizygotic sets of twins.
The marked progression in the dependence of monozygotic, dizygotic and trizygotic rates on maternal age underlines the importance of this factor in multiple birth studies.
If both members of a pair responded "almost always," "always," or "often," they were classified as monozygotic.
Therefore, monozygotic twins should be concordant for inherited traits approximately twice as often as dizygotic twins.
Of the complete pairs, 3269 pairs were monozygotic, 9010 pairs dizygotic, and 128 pairs of unknown zygosity.
However, while there is little variation in the monozygotic twinning rates in most of the regional groups, the dizygotic twinning rates vary considerably.
Except for monozygotic twins, each person in the population has a unique genotype.
Monozygotic twinning rates have shown no similar trend so that pregnancy wastage does not seem to be implicated.
They found that only for games that involved heavy player promotion and high payoffs, male monozygotic twins were similar in their frequency of gambling.
It tends to cluster in families and have a modest (36%) concordance rate in monozygotic twins.
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