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Young Finnish monozygotic twins
Young Finnish monozygotic twins. While genetically identical, environmental and stochastic effects do produce differences between twins even for highly heritable traits like height. However, in the presence of genetic effects, this difference is expected to be smaller on average for monozygotic than for dizygotic twins (see Perola et al.).
Image Credit: Photograph by Elina Ketola, Helsinki, Finland.
Citation: (2007) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 3(6) June 2007. PLoS Genet 3(6): ev03.i06. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v03.i06
Published: June 29, 2007
Copyright: © 2007 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Young Finnish monozygotic twins. While genetically identical, environmental and stochastic effects do produce differences between twins even for highly heritable traits like height. However, in the presence of genetic effects, this difference is expected to be smaller on average for monozygotic than for dizygotic twins (see Perola et al.).
Image Credit: Photograph by Elina Ketola, Helsinki, Finland.