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work_yoojcpbyovbyfnltwxq6s5e5fq	Susan A Treloar	Genetic influences on premature parturition in an Australian twin sample	2000.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1776	141	57	We investigated possible genetic influences on women's liability to preterm birth, using data from a large sample of Australian female twin pairs. of 905 parous twin pairs (579 monozygotic and 326 dizygotic) reported on whether deliveries had Tetrachoric twin pair correlations for first birth were Best-fitting models to data contained only additive genetic influences and further investigation of genetic influences on specific reasons for preterm birth is warranted. Keywords: Preterm birth, pregnancy outcome, twins, genetics Premature delivery (preterm birth) was defined in We investigated parous twins' independent reports of premature delivery of first baby, and also reports of higher prevalence of multiple births in the DZ twins. ( > 2:1) shown in Table 1 suggests that genetic influences may be operating on premature parturition.10 a premature delivery for any birth, the best fitting Genetic influences on preterm birth in Australian twin mothers Genetic influences on preterm birth in Australian twin mothers	./cache/work_yoojcpbyovbyfnltwxq6s5e5fq.pdf	./txt/work_yoojcpbyovbyfnltwxq6s5e5fq.txt