Chris-
This certainly seems interesting and could help explain a lot of
puzzling differences that we sometime see in "identical" (e.g. one
develops schizophrenia and one does not, one ends up gay and the other
straight etc.) Since this is not my field I'm not completely sure how to
interpret these findings. From the article I was unable to determine the
ages of the subjects. Given that several of the pairs had Parkinson's I
am assuming that they were adults & probably post 50. Would we expect
these same differences to occur in neonate twins? That is, are these
differences something that arises out of misreplications over a lifetime
or were they there since conception. Hopefully someone with a greater
knowledge of genetics than mine (and that would be almost anybody) could
help clarify this point.
Thanks,
-Don.
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Have you been teaching your students that identical (monozygotic) twins have
identical genes? Turns out that's not correct. See this NYT article:
http://tinyurl.com/33m4c3
Chris Green
York U.
Toronto, Canada
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