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Since 1992, he has been an adjunct Professor in the Departments of Pathology (1993), Zoology (1996), and Psychology (2003) at the University of Queensland, and Senior Principal Research Fellow at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. [citation needed] Together with J.D. Mathews, he established in 1978 the Australian Twin Registry.
The Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) is an ongoing longitudinal twin study based at King's College London.The main goal of TEDS is to use behavioural genetic methods to find out how nature and nurture (environments) can explain why people differ with respect to their cognitive abilities, learning abilities and behaviours.
The power of twin designs arises from the fact that twins may be either identical (monozygotic (MZ), i.e. developing from a single fertilized egg and therefore sharing all of their polymorphic alleles) or fraternal (dizygotic (DZ), i.e. developing from two fertilized eggs and therefore sharing on average 50% of their alleles, the same level of genetic similarity found in non-twin siblings).
The use of twins can improve the statistical power of a genetic study by reducing the amount of genetic and/or environmental variability. [1] " Identical twins" (monozygotic (MZ) twins) share virtually all their genes with each other, and "fraternal twins" (dizygotic (DZ) twins), on average, share about 50% of their genes with each other (about the same amount of sharing as non-twin siblings).
Elaine Holmes FAA is an Australian systems biologist, and chemist, who was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2023. She was awarded an ARC Laureate Fellowship in 2020. She is a computational biologist working in metabolomic phenotyping , [ 1 ] spectrometry and translational clinical medicine , [ 2 ] at Murdoch University ...
Education: University of Minnesota University of Colorado: Known for: Twin studies: Awards: James Shields Award for Lifetime Contributions to Twin Research from the International Society for Twin Studies (2007) Dobzhansky Award from the Behavior Genetics Association (2014) Scientific career: Fields: Genetic epidemiology: Institutions ...
Pages in category "Research institutes in Australia" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. ... Australian Space Research Institute;
The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), established in 1930, is an independent educational research organisation based in Camberwell, Victoria (Melbourne) and with offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Cyberjaya, Dubai, Jakarta, London, New Delhi, Perth and Sydney. ACER develops and manages a range of testing and assessment services ...