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Twin Research

March 2000, Volume 3, Issue 1
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Publisher’s announcement

1
Jayne Marks Publishing Director
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Articles

Risk of premature birth in multifetal pregnancy 2
H Minakami, S Kosuge, H Fujiwara, Y Mori & I Sato
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Ultrasound examination of neonatal hip: correlation of twin pregnancy and congenital dysplasia 7
O Rühmann, D Lazovic acute, P Bouklas, S Schmolke & CH Flamme
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Dizygotic to monozygotic twinning ratio at The Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne 1947-1997, compared with Australian national twinning incidence 12
Stephen Tong
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Happy families: a twin study of humour 17
Lynn Cherkas, Fran Hochberg, Alex J MacGregor, Harold Snieder & Tim D Spector
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Aetiology of teenage childbearing: reasons for familial effects 23
Petra Otterblad Olausson, Paul Lichtenstein & Sven Cnattingius
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Lifetime prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders in twin pairs discordant for schizophrenia 28
Michael J Lyons, Jonathan Huppert, Rosemary Toomey, Rebecca Harley, Jack Goldberg, Seth Eisen, William True, Stephen V Faraone & Ming T Tsuang
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Representativeness of a roster of volunteer North American twins with chronic disease 33
Thomas M Mack, Dennis Deapen & Ann S Hamilton
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Genetic and environmental influences on body fat distribution, fasting insulin levels and CVD: are the influences shared? 43
Tracy L Nelson, George P Vogler, Nancy L Pedersen, Yuling Hong & Toni P Miles
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Genetic nature of individual frailty: comparison of two approaches 51
Alexander Z Begun, Ivan A Iachine & Anatoli I Yashin
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News, Views and Comments

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Nancy L Segal
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