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The Etiology of Human Dizygotic Twinning With Special Reference to Spontaneous Abortions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Denis Hémon ,
Colette Berger  and
Philippe Lazar
Denis Hémon
Affiliation:
Unité de Recherches Epidémiologiques et Statistiques sur l'Environnement et la Santé, INSERM, Villejuif, France
Colette Berger
Affiliation:
Unité de Recherches Epidémiologiques et Statistiques sur l'Environnement et la Santé, INSERM, Villejuif, France
Philippe Lazar
Affiliation:
Unité de Recherches Epidémiologiques et Statistiques sur l'Environnement et la Santé, INSERM, Villejuif, France

Abstract

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The comparison of 622 twin and 622 singleton births allowed us to confirm the association of dizygotic twinning with maternal age, parity, and maternal weight and height, as well as the occurrence of unlike-sex twins in the mother's family. It was also shown that none of these associations, except for maternal height, can be explained by the others. Dizygotic twinning was also found to be negatively correlated with previous use of oral contraceptives and with irregularity of menstrual cycle. Finally, the relationship between spontaneous abortion in previous pregnancies and maternal exposure to medical irradiation was investigated.

Keywords

AbortionOral contraceptivesDizygotic twinningPelvic irradiationMaternal ageParityMaternal height and weight
Type
Session I: Incidence and Factors of Twinning
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , October 1979 , pp. 252 - 258
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1979

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