Endocrine Abstracts

Dizygotic twinning is the result of fertilization of multiple follicles that develop during one ovulatory cycle. Significant factors contributing to natural DZ multiples are heredity, increased maternal age and higher parity. Older women are at higher risk for DZ twinning because they have a strongly increased risk of multiple follicle growth as a result of diminished ovarian feedback from the due to a smaller available cohort of follicles. FSH increases allowing all follicles...