IBD sharing around the PPARG locus is not increased in dizygotic twins or their mothers

Nat Genet. 2001 Aug;28(4):315. doi: 10.1038/91074.

Abstract

Busjahn et al reported finding linkage between PPARG (3p25) and being a dizygotic (DZ) twin. We differentiate, as do the authors, between the conception of DZ twins, and being the viable result of such a conception.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Anxiety / genetics
  • Asthma / genetics
  • Australia
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3 / genetics*
  • Genetic Linkage*
  • Humans
  • Lod Score
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Mothers*
  • Netherlands
  • Nevus / genetics
  • New Zealand
  • Nuclear Family
  • Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear / genetics*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Transcription Factors / genetics*
  • Twin Studies as Topic
  • Twins, Dizygotic / genetics*

Substances

  • Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear
  • Transcription Factors