Twin Research for Everyone: From Biology to Health, Epigenetics, and Psychology

Twin Research: Biology, Health, Epigenetics, and Psychology is a comprehensive, applied resource in twinning and twin studies that is grounded in the most impactful findings from twin research in recent years. Here, more than forty leading experts across an array of disciplines examine twinning and twin research methodologies from the perspectives of biology, medicine, genetic and epigenetic influences, and neuroscience. Chapters provide clear instruction in both basic and advanced research methods, family and parenting aspects of twinning, twin studies as applied across various disease areas and medical specialties, genetic and epigenetic determinants of differentiation, and academic, neurological and cognitive development.

This thorough analysis of existing studies and methods instruction empowers researchers to apply twin-based research and advance new studies across a range of biomedical and behavioral fields, highlighting current research trends and future directions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0128215143
• ISBN13: 9780128215142
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 738 Pages