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Twins Reared Apart: A Forgotten Case / Twin Research Reviews: X-Inactivation and Female Co-Twin Discordance for Hemophilia; Transplantation for Breast Reconstruction; Chimerism and Telomere Attrition in Dizygotic Twins; Divergent Life Histories in Twins Reared Apart / Current Concerns: High ACT-Scoring Twins; Dating a Twin; When Gender Identities Diverge / The Holland Twins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2012

Nancy L. Segal
Nancy L. Segal*
Affiliation:
California State University, United States of America. nsegal@fullerton.edu
*
*Address for correspondence: Nancy L. Segal, Department of Psychology, California State University, Fullerton, CA 92834, USA.

Abstract

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A forgotten story of monozygotic twins reared apart is described. The pair, born in 1941 in Fribourg, Switzerland, were separated due to switch-baby incident in the hospital. This caused one twin to be raised as a singleton by an unrelated family, and the other twin to be raised as a ‘dizygotic’ twin with an unrelated child. This is followed by reviews of recent twin research and case studies of X-inactivation and hemophilia, breast reconstruction, chimerism and life histories. The final section of the article includes human interest pieces on academic twins, dating twins, transsexual twins and athletic twins.

Keywords

twins reared apartx-inactivationhemophiliachimerism
Type
News, Views, and Comments
Information
Twin Research and Human Genetics , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , 01 February 2009 , pp. 123 - 126
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009