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217 Multiple sclerosis: author's interview with Dr. Thomas Mack, who specializes in studies on MS at the Norris Cancer Center, USC.

217 Nearsightedness: “Strong Evidence for a Genetic Marker for Nearsightedness,”
Science Daily
, at
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080602120910.htm
.

217 Obesity:
http://news.smashits.com/264005/Lifestyle-can-change-gene-activity-cause-insulin-resistance.htm
.

217 Phobias: David H. Barlow,
Anxiety and Its Disorders
(New York: Guilford Press, 2004).

217 Sleep patterns
:
Nathaniel F. Watson et al., “Genetic and Environmental Influences on Insomnia, Daytime Sleepiness, and Obesity in Twins,”
SLEEP
29, no. 5 (2006): 645.

218 Sleepwalking: Christer Hublin, et al. “Prevalence and genetics of sleepwalking: a population-based study,”
Neurology
48, no. 1 (1997):177–181.

218 Smoking:
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1408939.htm
.

218 Social life:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25192829/
. See also Takeo Fujiwara et al., “Social Capital and Health: A Study of Adult Twins in the
U.S.,” American Journal of Preventive Medicine
35, no. 2 (2008): 139–144.

218 Stuttering: S. Felsenfeld et al., “A Study of the Genetic and Environmental Etiology of Stuttering in a Selected Twin Sample,”
Behavior Genetics
30, no. 5 (2000): 359–366.

218 Voting behavior: Charles Q. Choi, “The Genetics of Politics,”
Scientific American
, October 2007.

227 Tay-Sachs disease:
http://kidshealth.org/parent/medical/genetic/tay_sachs.html
. genetics special,
Cracking the Code of Life:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genome/program.html#03
.

238 “We assume we are all individuals”: Oliver Sacks, “Bound Together in Fantasy and Crime,” a review of
The Silent Twins
, by Marjorie Wallace,
New York Times
, October 19, 1986.

238 Nigerians killed their twins: Hillel Schwartz,
The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles
(New York: Zone Books, 1999).

238 Brazilians thought multiple births were a product of adultery: E. A. Stewart, “The Comparative Constitution of Twinship: Strategies and Paradoxes,”
Twin Research
3 (2000): 142–147.

239 On some Pacific islands, it was thought that opposite-sex fetuses had had an incestuous relationship in the womb: S. Errington, “Incestuous Twins and the House Societies in Insular Southeast Asia,”
Cult Anthropol
2, no. 4 (1987): 403–444.

241 “Identical twin parents are equally related to their own children”: Nancy L. Segal,
Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About Human Behavior
(New York: Dutton, 1999).

246 “embodied the selections process” for many survivors: Robert Jay Lifton,
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
(New York: Basic Books, 1986).

246 “… He frequently went to the ramp when not selecting in order to see that twins were being collected and saved for him”: ibid.

251 Mengele was a “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” figure: ibid.

251 kill one twin immediately after the other twin died: ibid.

251 Lifton describes how Mengele injected twins with chloroform to stop their hearts: ibid.

251 Mengele is said to have sewed two Gypsy twins together to create conjoined twins: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin,
Jewish Literacy
(New York: William Morrow, 1991).

257 “My heart may break”: “Love Radiates Around,” by Mark Johnson,
Another World
album, 1985.

Adrian, Chris.
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. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Ainslie, Ricardo.
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. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1997.

Bailey, J. Michael, and Richard C. Pillard, M.D. “A Genetic Study of Male Sexual Orientation.”
Archives of General Psychiatry
48, no. 12 (1991): 1089–1096.

Bailey, J. Michael et al. “Genetic and Environmental Influences on Sexual Orientation and Its Correlates in an Australian Twin Sample.”
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
78, no. 3 (2000): 524–536.

Blickstein, Isaac, Louis G. Keith, and Donald M. Keith, eds.
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. 2nd ed. Abingdon, England: Taylor & Francis, 2005.

Brandt, Raymond William.
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. Leo, Indiana: Twinsworld Publishing Co., 2001.

Burlingham, Dorothy.
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. London: Imago Publishing Company, 1952.

Burton-Phillips, Elizabeth.
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. London: Portrait, 2007.

Cassill, Kay.
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. New York: Atheneum, 1982.

Chemeche, George, ed.
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. Milan: Five Continent Editions, 2003.

Courlander, Harold.
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. New York: Original Publications, 1973.

Davison, Susan. “Mother, Other and Self—Love and Rivalry for Twins in their First Year of Life.”
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Friedman, Joan.
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. Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2008.

Gedda, Luigi.
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. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1961.

Harris, Judith Rich.
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. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

____, No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality
. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.

Hayton, Althea, ed.
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. St. Albans, England: Wren Publications, 2007.

Klagsbrun, Francine.
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. New York: Bantam, 1992.

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. New York: Basic Books, 1986.

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. 3d ed. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

Ortmeyer, Dale. “The We-Self of Identical Twins.”
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. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Pearlman, Eileen M., and Jill Alison Ganon.
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. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

Piontelli, Alessandra.
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Setterfield, Diane.
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Sandbank, Audrey C., ed.
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Schwartz, Hillel.
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. New York: Zone Books, 1998.

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. New York: Dutton, 1999.

_______. Indivisible by Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins
. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.

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. New York: Viking Penguin, 2007.

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Wright, Lawrence.
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A
BIGAIL
P
OGREBIN
has been a print and broadcast journalist for twenty years. A Yale graduate and protégée of television pioneer Fred W. Friendly, Pogrebin was a producer for
60 Minutes
(for Ed Bradley, Mike Wallace, and Lesley Stahl), Charlie Rose, and Bill Moyers. She has written for numerous magazines and newspapers. Her previous book was
Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish
. Her identical twin, Robin Pogrebin, is a culture reporter for the
New York Times
.

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