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Human Twinning Rate in Iniö in the South-West of Finland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Rolf Kroneld
Rolf Kroneld*
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health, University of Turku, Finland
*
Department of Public Health, Lemminkäisenkatu 2, SF-20520 Turku, Finland

Abstract

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A secular demographic study on the Iniö Island in SW Finland shows an even stronger decline of twinning rates than in the Åland Islands and the rest of the archipelago. Twinning rates in Iniö declined, in fact from about 30‰ to less than 10‰.

Keywords

Twinning ratesDemographyFinland
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 143 - 146
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1988

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