Segal Nancy L, Marcheco-Teruel Beatriz
Department of Psychology,California State University,Fullerton,CA,USA.
National Centre of Medical Genetics,Havana,Cuba.
Twin Res Hum Genet. 2014 Aug;17(4):347-53. doi: 10.1017/thg.2014.35. Epub 2014 Jul 3.
I was part of a people-to-people tour of Havana, Cuba during the first week in April 2014. Among the many highlights of that adventure were an informal meeting with Dr Beatriz Marcheco-Teruel, from Cuba's National Center for Medical Genetics, and a visit to the famous 'Street of Twins'. A fortuitous meeting with parents of twins in the fishing town of Jaimanitas was also an extraordinary event. The Cuban experience is followed by summaries of recent twin research, covering umbilical cord entanglement, the heritability of clubfoot and school separation policies for twins. Media reports include twins reunited at age 78, the future of UCLA's twin basketball players, MZ twins born holding hands, a twin conflict over beer and a pair of American Psychological Association honors for Drs Nancy L. Segal and Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.
2014年4月的第一周，我参加了一个前往古巴哈瓦那的民间交流访问团。那次冒险之旅的诸多亮点包括与古巴国家医学遗传中心的比阿特丽斯·马尔切科 - 特鲁埃尔博士进行的一次非正式会面，以及对著名的“双胞胎街”的参观。在渔村贾伊马尼塔斯与双胞胎父母的一次偶然相遇也是一件不同寻常的事。之后是对近期双胞胎研究的总结，内容涵盖脐带缠绕、马蹄内翻足的遗传率以及双胞胎的学校分班政策。媒体报道包括78岁时重逢的双胞胎、加州大学洛杉矶分校双胞胎篮球运动员的未来、出生时牵手的同卵双胞胎、一场关于啤酒的双胞胎冲突，以及美国心理学会授予南希·L·西格尔博士和小托马斯·J·布沙尔博士的两项荣誉。
