The mean correlation of IQ scores between monozygotic twins was 0.86, between siblings, 0.47, between half-siblings, 0.31, and between cousins, 0.15.
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This forms the basis for why the preferred choice of a physician considering an organ donor will be a monozygotic twin.
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An example of the clear phenotypic variability is a monozygotic twin study conducted by Jobling et al . ( 2010 ).
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An "'Isograft "'is a graft of tissue between two individuals who are genetically identical ( i . e . monozygotic twins ).
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:Our twin article has a useful discussion, and mentions a number of times that monozygotic twins'DNA will be " nearly " identical.
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The monozygotic twins also chose spouses and best friends who were more similar to their co-twins'friends and spouses than did dizygotic twins.
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Using this data, the researchers were able to construct a sample of 136 pairs of monozygotic twins, of whom 85 percent were married.
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There is weak evidence that monozygotic twins sharing a placenta have a higher concordance rate for schizophrenia than monozygotic twins with separate placentas.
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In contrast, the monozygotic twins share 100 % of their genes whereas the dizygotic twins only share about 50 % of their genes.
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As monozygotic twins have the same major histocompatibility complex, there is very rarely any rejection of transplanted tissue by the adaptive immune system.
