Segal Nancy L
Department of Psychology,California State University,Fullerton,CA,USA.
Twin Res Hum Genet. 2018 Feb;21(1):67-72. doi: 10.1017/thg.2017.70. Epub 2018 Jan 8.
Highlights from the 16th International Twin Congress, held in Madrid, Spain from November 16-18, 2017, are presented. The Twin Congress, formerly held every three years, now takes place biennially with a single-day meeting organized during the off years. This meeting is the largest gathering of scientific twin researchers, medical personnel, and representatives of multiple birth organizations in the world. This overview is followed by reviews of recent twin research and commentary concerning partner aggression, ABO incompatibility in dizygotic twins, growth discordance in a monoamniotic twin pair and twin implantation. The article closes with summaries of timely topics in the media, namely a father's finding of his long-lost twin children, early results from the NASA twin experiment, twin brothers at the center of the October 2017 Las Vegas attack, retired twin airline pilots, and clips from recent films with twin-based themes.
本文介绍了2017年11月16日至18日在西班牙马德里举行的第16届国际双胞胎大会的亮点。双胞胎大会以前每三年举办一次,现在改为每两年举办一次,在非举办年组织为期一天的会议。这次会议是世界上科学双胞胎研究人员、医务人员和多胞胎组织代表的最大规模聚会。接下来是对近期双胞胎研究的综述以及关于伴侣攻击、异卵双胞胎中的ABO血型不相容、单绒毛膜双胎对中的生长不一致和双胞胎植入的评论。文章最后总结了媒体上的热门话题,即一位父亲找到他失散多年的双胞胎孩子、美国国家航空航天局双胞胎实验的早期结果、2017年10月拉斯维加斯袭击案核心的双胞胎兄弟、退休的双胞胎航空公司飞行员,以及近期以双胞胎为主题的电影片段。