Fraternal or dizygotic twins develop from two different eggs fertilized by separate sperm; they generally share about 50 percent of their genes. Therefore, fraternal twins are essentially like ...

Fraternal twins Avery and Emersyn Davis, who were born three days apart, got to go home this week after spending over four months in the NICU Maria Pasquini is the senior news editor for the human ...

What's the meaning of fraternal twins? Fraternal twins come from two separate fertilized eggs that develop in the womb at the ...

PLAINVIEW, N.Y. — Graduation season is coming up and one high school in Long Island is sending off 15 sets of twins among their senior class. The Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High ...

About 23 in every 1000 births are fraternal, a much higher rate than the three or four out of 1000 births for identical twins. Examining each twin’s DNA will reveal whether they are identical or ...