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据《科学》杂志报道,英国研究人员正计划设立世界最大的双胞胎信息登记库。伦敦精神病学研究所行为遗传学家Robert Plomin说:“我们发展双胞胎银行已经快一年了。”他和伦敦国王学院遗传流行病学家Timothy Spector正合作推进这一项目。Plomin表示,英国医疗保健系统资助的一项初步研究估计,至少有30万对双胞胎同意参与这一项目。这一数字将超过世界上所有双胞胎登记库全部记录的总和。确定双胞胎是同卵还是异卵,将
According to “Science” magazine reported that British researchers are planning to set up the world’s largest twins register of information. Robert Plomin, behavioral geneticist at the London Institute of Psychiatry said: “We have been developing twin banks for almost a year.” He and Timothy Spector, a genetic epidemiologist at King’s College London, are collaborating on the project. Plomin said a preliminary study funded by the UK health care system estimated that at least 300,000 twins had agreed to participate in the project. This figure will exceed the sum of all the records in all twins in the world. Determine the twins are identical or fraternal, will