Like many physicians, Margaretha L. Casselbrant suspected that some children have a hereditary predisposition to middle ear infections. Unlike most other physicians, she set out to prove it systematically.
Because twins share their environment, scientists compared how often middle ear infections occur simultaneously in identical twins and in fraternal twins to learn how much genes matter in this disease.
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