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Excessive Twinning in a Rural American Genealogy: The Demographic Pedigree

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

John W. Sheets
John W. Sheets*
Affiliation:
Department of History and Anthropology, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, Missouri, USA
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Department of History and Anthropology, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg MO 64093, USA

Abstract

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Excessive twinning in an extended family of rural Missouri concentrates in the isolated generations of 1874-1930s. Moderate inbreeding, larger sibships to older mothers, and access to local doctors may have combined to enhance this familial twinning. These biosocial factors are similar to an isolated case of excessive twinning in Scotland.

Keywords

Excessive twinningMissouri foundersInbreeding
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 1987 , pp. 349 - 353
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1987

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