Talk:Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research

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"Twins are valuable to researchers because they share 100% of genes in identical twins and 50% of genes in fraternal twins."

The first part of this is true (except in very rare cases, like if one twin has Turner's syndrome), but as far as I know there's no specific amount of DNA shared by all fraternal twins. They can have as much or as little in common as any other siblings, as genetically speaking, they're just siblings who happened to gestate together.


 * Speaking off-hand, I believe 50% is considered the average amount that any non-identical siblings share.--Nectar 10:43, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

The link "Sources of human psychological differences: the Minnesota study of twins reared apart." to http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/psychology/IQ/bouchard-twins.html is broken. 24.118.202.109 12:32, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup 29th October 2016
I have substantially cleaned up this article. I replaced the denialist literature on the bottom with the most commonly used textbook. I have added proper inline citation for various claims and removed the manually cited references. Deleted a section that was a copy paste job and deleted another section that was out of place. None of these had any citations, so the loss is pretty small. The article is now alright, but could be improved upon by e.g. inclusion of a figure of the findings. --Deleet (talk) 18:11, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Needs additional clarification
Can someone please add a few sentences -- including possibly changing the order of the paragraphs -- to show the relationship of Dr. Bouchard's work (which was started in 1979) to the rest of the study (started in 1983)? Right now it is unclear and confusing. Thanks. Tina Kimmel (talk) 00:38, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research
This page should really be renamed to "Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research". The "Minnesota Twin Family Study" is but one of multiple twin studies (and adoption study) within this research center. The page as it stands describes multiple of these studies, including the Minnesota Twin Family Study. At the same time, it describes the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart, a separate and independent study led by a different investigator, although conducted within the University of Minnesota. I will work on the renaming in the next few weeks if there are no suggestions otherwise. Vrie0006 (talk) 12:28, 10 June 2020 (UTC)