title: Twins reunited: scientific and personal perspectives/twin research studies: multiple birth effects on IQ and body size; life style, muscles, and metabolism; monochorionic dizygotic twin with blood chimerism; amniocentesis for twins/twins in the media: identical doctors; freedom fighter for twins; twin scholarships; Auguste and Jean-Felix Piccard; twins born apart.
abstract: A reunion of 38-year-old female monozygotic twins took place in Daegu, South Korea, on January 14, 2014. Scientific and personal perspectives on this extraordinary event are provided. A review of timely twin research follows, covering the effects of multiple births on IQ and body size, lifestyle and physical fitness associations, a rare case of a dizygotic twin with blood chimerism and definitional issues surrounding amniocentesis-related loss in multiple birth pregnancies. Interesting and informative mention of twins in the media includes twin doctors, a twin freedom fighter, the availability of college scholarships for twins, a new book about the Piccard family (two of whose members were twins), and co-twins born before and after the new year. A follow-up to a previous mention of identical twin biatheletes is also provided.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, California State University, Fullerton, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Nancy L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Segal
authors.affiliation: Department of School Psychology, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Christy A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Mulligan
mesh_terms: D000300:Adoption; D000649:Amniocentesis; D049628:Body Size; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008019:Life Style; D056910:Republic of Korea; D018433:Twin Studies as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D014427:Twins; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities