http://www.4twin.com/articles-action-listarticles-id-6.htm ÇáãÞÇáÇÊ Articles ar-sa Copyright 2012 - 4twin.com Sat, 19 May 2012 23:33:09 +0200 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 Articles in English Dimofinf Rss Feed Generator 1440 Walk around the Upper West Side with a double stroller, as I do from time to time, and it’s amazing how long it can take to make it to Fairway. An older gentleman wants to know whether there were twins in the family. A middle-aged woman needs to stop and list every pair of twins she’s come to know in a five-block radius. There are many, many, many young twins in that five-block radius. The listing of them takes a long time. There are twins on 72nd Street and two sets in her building alone and girl twins on the corner and boy twins she always sees at the Starbucks ... Is it something in the water? Skip to next paragraph Related TwinsThis person invariably wants the parent of twins to share in her incredulity at the freak nature of so many twins proliferating in so concentrated an area. Never mind that the same abundance quite likely exists in most gentrified areas of the five boroughs, the kinds of places inhabited by two-career families, or women who had a good long run of New York dating before settling down to start a family in their mid-30s. Of course, there’s nothing freakish or remarkable about how so many twins came to crowd the preschools of New York City. Older mothers are more prone to throwing off two eggs at once, but they’re also more likely to have trouble conceiving, and opting for in vitro fertilization. (The number of twins nationwide has increased by 65 percent in the past two decades.) Maybe Jennifer Lopez, who, her father announced on TV last week, is expecting twins, is one of those two-eggs-per-cycle women; maybe, as her father suggested, it’s in the genes (his sister has twins). Or maybe she opted --- ÃßËÑ

]]> http://www.4twin.com/articles-action-show-id-189.htm Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:28:00 +0100 It is a basic tenet of human biology, taught in grade schools everywhere: Identical twins come from the same fertilized egg and, thus, share identical genetic profiles. But according to new research, though identical twins share very similar genes, identical they are not. The discovery opens a new understanding of why two people who hail from the same embryo can differ in phenotype, as biologists refer to a person’s physical manifestation. The new findings appear in the March issue of The American Journal of Human Genetics, in a study conducted by scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and universities in Sweden and the Netherlands. The scientists examined the genes of 10 pairs of monozygotic, or identical, twins, including 9 pairs in which one twin showed signs of dementia or Parkinson’s disease and the other did not. It has long been known that identical twins develop differences that result from environment. And in recent years, it has also been shown that some of their differences can spring from unique changes in what are known as epigenetic factors, the chemical markers that attach to genes and affect how they are expressed — in some cases by slowing or shutting the genes off, and in others by increasing their output. These epigenetic changes — which accumulate over a lifetime and can arise from things like diet and tobacco smoke — have been implicated in the development of cancer and behavioral traits like fearfulness and confidence, among other things. Epigenetic markers vary widely from one person to another, but identical twins were still considered genetically identical because epigenetics in --- ÃßËÑ

]]> http://www.4twin.com/articles-action-show-id-188.htm Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:27:00 +0100 Maybe it is best for Debby Ledford to get this out of her twin sons’ way so early in their careers, so early in the season. Skip to next paragraph N.B.A. Live Scoreboard Results and Schedule Teams | Statistics Knicks Schedule/Results Roster | Statistics Nets Schedule/Results Roster | Statistics There will be tugging emotions for Ledford — and a conflicting wardrobe — when the Nets host the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday night. In the first meeting of what could biannually cycle itself for the next decade or so, Ledford’s sons, the 7-foot centers Brook and Robin Lopez, will be on opposing N.B.A. teams. Does she clap her hands if one scores over the other? Or does she simply sit on them, waiting for a less biased time to cheer? Even she is not quite sure. “I don’t know,” said Ledford, who will be wearing a Nets shirt and a Suns hat to the Izod Center. “I haven’t had to deal with that yet. This is going to be a first for me, too. I’ll just enjoy it and cheer for everybody.” A genetic rivalry now makes its professional debut. Brook and Robin first teamed together as first graders playing on a second-grade team, then at San Joaquin Memorial High School in Fresno, Calif., and later at Stanford University. When an opponent beat one to the basket, the other loomed at his side. Together, Brook and Robin learned both their strengths and weakness from each other. “They started that rivalry in the driveway,” Ledford said. “But a driveway rivalry is one thing. Opposite teams in the N.B.A. is another.” They prepared for the separation the way they had for everything in their lives: scrimmaging against each o --- ÃßËÑ

]]> http://www.4twin.com/articles-action-show-id-187.htm Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:22:00 +0100 Many identical twins can finish each other’s sentences and wear the same clothes. The LaSalle brothers catch each other’s juggling clubs while doing back flips with one standing on the other’s shoulders. And they do it before hundreds of people several times a week. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Andrea Mohin/The New York Times Marty, left, and Jake LaSalle at the Big Apple Circus. They mix synchronized juggling with gymnastics and dance moves. Multimedia Video: The LaSalle Brothers at the Big Apple Circus The brothers, Jake and Marty, who are among the stars of the Big Apple Circus, have proved adept at advancing their careers inside and outside the big top. They graduated cum laude from Columbia in 2007 and are believed to be the only professional jugglers among the university’s alumni. The LaSalles, who are 24, began developing their talent as children in Kennett Square, Pa., a borough about 35 miles west of Philadelphia that bills itself as the “Mushroom Capital of the World.” The brothers, however, started out with apples. “When we were about 8, we would juggle apples when we went to orchards with my mother,” Jake said. “It started with just three apples, and we were instantly hooked.” “Mushrooms,” Marty joked, “would have been more difficult to manipulate.” They decided to put together an act while still in elementary school, and they took gymnastics and added those skills to their performances. They performed mostly in Pennsylvania, and when they were 11, they were spotted at a juggling convention in Pittsburgh by Benji Hill, a professional juggling coach. “He gave us the performance --- ÃßËÑ

]]> http://www.4twin.com/articles-action-show-id-186.htm Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:19:00 +0100 MINNEAPOLIS — Keeping track of her six hockey-playing children used to be a snap for Linda Lamoureux. From a second-floor bedroom in their home in Grand Forks, N.D., she simply looked out onto the frozen English Coulee, where her four boys and twin girls, Monique and Jocelyne, usually skated in pickup games with other children in the neighborhood. Floodlights from two nearby homes illuminated the ice after dark, so Linda took to blowing a whistle to get her brood to come home for dinner. Skip to next paragraph If it happens on ice and it involves hitting and scoring, The Times Slap Shot blog is on it. Go to the Slapshot Blog » “I got too tired of walking across the street and yelling at them,” said their father, Jean-Pierre. All six have gone on to play Division I college hockey. Jacques, a sophomore at Air Force, leads Division I men with 26 goals. But the twins, now 19-year-old freshmen at Minnesota, may prove to be the most accomplished players in the family. Among Division I women, Monique (67 points) and Jocelyne (56) stand first and fourth in the nation in scoring for the No. 1-ranked Gophers. With a 3-1 win Saturday over St. Cloud State, they won their first Western Collegiate Hockey Association regular-season title since 2005. Monique has 33 goals and 34 assists in 34 games this season. Her goal total is tied for second nationally, behind Wisconsin’s Hilary Knight, who has 37. Jocelyne, the playmaker, has 32 assists, tied for third nationally behind her sister and another Badger, Erika Lawler (38). Top-seeded Minnesota (28-3-3) will face Bemidji State in the first round of the W.C.H.A. playoffs, begin --- ÃßËÑ

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