Heritability of facial soft tissue growth in mono- and dizygotic twins at 12 and 17 years of age: A retrospective cohort study.

Monika A Hersberger-Zurfluh Spyridon N Papageorgiou Melih Motro Alpdoğan Kantarcı Leslie A Will Theodore Eliades

Published in: Orthodontics & craniofacial research (2022)

Although monozygotic/dizygotic twins share at least part of their genome, at both times either additive, dominant or environmental components were found. Nevertheless, at 17 years of age most of the variables are either under additive or dominant genetic influence.

Keyphrases

soft tissue
genome wide
gestational age
copy number
gene expression
climate change
life cycle