The TwinsUK resource is the biggest UK adult twin registry of 12,000 twins used to study the genetic and environmental aetiology of age related complex traits and diseases.
The KCL Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine is now offering bursaries for Masters programmes. Students can choose twin-related topics for their coursework. For further details please go to the “Taught Courses“ part of the “Learning & Training” section of this website.
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With the recent case of the French identical twins who have been implicated in serial rape, Quentin Cooper asks forensic geneticist Gill Tully from the Principal Forensics Services how DNA helps the police to find perpetrators and Tim Spector, a genetic epidemiologist from King’s College London, suggests that identical twins might not actually be as [...]
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Identical twins are incredibly similar – which makes sense, since they have precisely the same genes. But a practiced eye can often find subtle differences. On this program, Bob MacDonald speaks with Tim Spector who explains how the new science of epigenetics can produce twins who are “Identically Different”. The show “Quirks and Quarks – [...]
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On Wednesday 24th October we were delighted to welcome the patron of TwinsUK, Baroness Betty Boothroyd, on a visit to the Department of Twin Research. Baroness Boothroyd is a British politician, who served as Member of Parliament and, from 1992 to 2000, as the first, and to date only, female Speaker of the House of [...]
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Dan and Scott Shillum are identical twins, genetic clones produced from the accidental division of a single fertilised egg into two embryos in their mother’s womb some 40 years ago. Which is quite surprising when you meet them because – apart from sounding the same, and finishing each others sentences like an old married couple [...]
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Reaffirming our position as a world-leader in the study of epigenetics, King’s has been awarded prestigious EU funding under the Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN). Due to start in March 2013, the programme will offer funding for three PhD places. Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology, explains the significance of this award for King’s, [...]
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