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twin study

Epidemiology A study using twins to determine the interplay of nature–genetic and nurture–environment and disease and its treatment; the interpretation of twin study data is often easier as there are exact genetic matches–ie, identical–monozygotic and partial genetic matches–ie, fraternal–dizygotic twins which are used as controls

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