Adjuvant chemotherapy has been associated with mild cognitive decline among a subset of breast cancer survivors. Late cognitive effects after chemotherapy can have a deleterious impact on survivor ...

Concordance for neuroblastoma in monozygotic twins has been reported only rarely, and the cause of the shared pathology has not been established. We describe a case of infant monozygotic twins ...

The short answer to this question is: If we consider monozygotic (identical) twins, then it's a firm somewhat. A new study looks at the impact of differing leisure time physical activity and twins' ...

In the study, 61 pairs of monozygotic twins where one twin is affected by MS whereas the co-twin is healthy were examined. From a genetic point of view, the twins were thus identical. "Although the ...

THE familial nature of congenital heart disease has become increasingly apparent. 1–3 However, a major obstacle to the acceptance of a significant genetic role in the etiology of congenital heart ...

Identical, or monozygotic, twins develop from the same fertilized egg that splits into two. These twins are the same sex and share the same genes. Sometimes called paternal twins, identical twins ...

New data derived from monozygotic twins suggests that higher BMI is associated with diabetes, but not myocardial infarction or early death. The results were unexpected. “From our study it seems that ...