| The International Twin Study
This page is under construction - it details another twin study being conducted
by the University of Southern California, based on the recruitment of twins with chronic
diseases.
The Twins Foundation
 It serves twins, their families, the media,
medical and social scientists and the general public through its publications, its
national Twin Registry and its multi-media resource center.
Mid-Atlantic Twin Registry
Twins and their families were identified for
the registry by using publicly available birth records, public driver's license
information, and through public and private school records. This information was made
available only for the purpose of medical research.
National Organization of Mothers of Twins
Clubs
The National Organization of Mothers of Twins
Clubs, Inc. (NOMOTC) was founded in 1960 for the purpose of promoting the special aspects
of child development which relate specifically to multiple birth children.
Twins Magazine
Twins Magazine is the only international publication dedicated to parents of
multiples and their unique parenting needs. It provides practical parenting advice,
informative features, touching personal accounts, the latest research findings and
developmental data specific to multiples aged birth to 6.
Center for the Study of Multiple
Births
CSMB distributes information world-wide at
gatherings of twins and multiples organizations, through print and electronic media, often
addressing lay audiences, and students working on school projects.
The MIT Twins Study
The MIT Twins Study is a long-term study of
language development in twins, headed by graduate student Jennifer Ganger and advised by
Professors Steven Pinker and Kenneth Wexler. The goal of the project is to compare
language learning in identical and fraternal twins to determine which aspects of language
and language learning have a heritable basis.
The Netherlands Twin Registry (currently no available link)
NTR is presently investigating the
contribution of genetic and environmental influences on brain development, intelligence,
problem behavior in children, attention problems in children, hand preference, health
related behavior (smoking, drinking and sports participation), personality,
twin-epidemiology and aging. Furthermore, research on risk of coronary heart disease,
asthma and twin-research methodology is being done.
National Twin Registry of Sri
Lanka
To initiate the process of establishing a
nation-wide twin registry by starting as a volunteer register and working towards a
population based register, to compliment and supplement current teaching and research
activities undertaken in Sri Lanka, in the field of Social, Genetic and developmental
research.
International Society for Twin Studies
ISTS is an international, nonpolitical,
nonprofit, multidisciplinary scientific organization. Its purpose is to further research
and public education in all fields related to twins and twin studies, for the mutual
benefit of twins and their families and of scientific research in general.
The Finnish Twin Cohort
Study
The aim of the project is to study the
environmental and genetic factors in selected common chronic diseases; especially
cardiovascular diseases, common malignant tumors, and chronic obstructive lung diseases.
Twin Things
A fun site created by a pair of twins with lots of information about twins in history,
myth and folklore.
St. Thomas' Twin Study
The Twin Research Unit at St Thomas' Hospital
was established in 1992 under the directorship of Dr Tim Spector to examine genetic and
environmental influences into the occurrence of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis in
post-menopausal women. |
