Twin Town in South Brazil: A Nazi's Experiment or a Genetic Founder Effect?

Cândido Godói (CG) is a small municipality in South Brazil with approximately 6,000 inhabitants. It is known as the “Twins' Town” due to its high rate of twin births. Recently it was claimed that such high frequency of twinning would be connected to experiments performed by the German Nazi doct...

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Main Authors: Tagliani-Ribeiro, Alice, Oliveira, Mariana, Sassi, Adriana K., Rodrigues, Maira R., Zagonel-Oliveira, Marcelo, Steinman, Gary, Matte, Ursula, Fagundes, Nelson J. R., Schuler-Faccini, Lavinia
Format: Online Article Text
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3110757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21687665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020328

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3110757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21687665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020328

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