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- Title
Twins Reared Apart and Twins in Families: The Findings Behind the Fascination.
- Authors
Segal, Nancy L.; Montoya, Yesika S.; Becker, Erika N.
- Abstract
Dr. Irving I. Gottesman was very creative in applying twin research designs to test hypotheses and predictions about human behavior. Two designs stand out among others: twins reared apart from birth and the twin-family study. I (NS) was inspired to incorporate both of these approaches into my own research programs at California State University, Fullerton. Gottesman's involvement and contributions to reared-apart twin research are described, followed by selected findings from the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart (MISTRA), the Fullerton Study of Chinese Twins Reared Apart (CTA), a case report on separated monozygotic (MZ) female twins from South Korea, and doubly exchanged MZ male twin pairs from Colombia, South America. Recent findings from an ongoing twin-family study of social closeness, and future directions, are also presented.
- Subjects
TWIN studies; HUMAN behavior; GOTTESMAN, Irving I., 1930-2016; FAMILY studies; FAMILIES; BEHAVIOR; CHILD rearing; COMPARATIVE studies; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; RESEARCH; TWIN psychology; EVALUATION research
- Publication
Twin Research & Human Genetics, 2018, Vol 21, Issue 4, p295
- ISSN
1832-4274
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1017/thg.2018.34