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Monday. November 9. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Registry to study twins
By JENNIFER ROWLAND
Staff writer
Sitting in a dimly-lit room on opposite ends of a rose-colored couch, Michele and Cheryl Seiler looked like mirror images of each other.
The 20-year-old identical twins are among those who may participate in a Midwestern Family Twin Registry, an annual day at the University of Kansas.
Michael Crawford, professor of anthropology, heads the registry, which already has attracted about 35 pairs of twins. He said he hoped to attract thousands of pairs of identical and fraternal twins to register in the next few years
"No single twin will be participating in all of these studies," he said.
"This is why we need a large sample."
Crawford said the study of twins allowed research on two individuals with identical genetic components and different lifestyles.
The registry will be the first in the region and will focus on finding out about aging, mental health and personality of twins, Crawford said.
Michele and Cheryl, blond-haired, blue-eyed juniors from Lake Forest, Ill., said they planned on signing up for the registry after hearing about it from a friend at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house, where they live.
"Being a twin, you're always interested in learning about what they say about you," Cheryl said. "Plus we'd be helping them get information."
Michele added, "I think it would be really interesting to do it and see what they come up with."
Growing up physical mirror images of each other, the pair said they often had been mistaken for real people, that it didn't bother them anymore.
Cheryl nodded and smiled when she said, "We've had that problem."
"We still have that problem," her sister added with a similar smile.
"We'd be riding the bus and people would talk to me about a test I just took," Cheryl said, "Well, I hadn't taken the test, she had."
The two said they sometimes would substitute for each other in classes in high school. Cheryl brought up an incident when a trade-off got her in trouble.
"In high school I got kicked out of the library once and I gave them Michele's name. She went to the library the next period and they wouldn't let her in," she said, glancing at her sister on the opposite end of the couch.
"They came and got me out of class. I got in trouble." Cheryl I
Both agree that an important part of their upbringing was that their mother raised them as individuals.
When they were babies, their mother dressed Cheryl in red outfits and Michele in blue outfits. Though clothes now, they don't dress alike.
really stressed individuality."
Cheryl said, "My mom brought us up to be two different people, and
Identical twins, Cheryl, left, and Michele Seiler, Lake Forest III, juniors, may participate in research on twins. The research will focus on aging, mental health and personalities of twins.
Danette Knowlton and Janetle Schwartzburg are another set of twins who plan to sign up for the twin registry.
Knowton registered them because of her interest in anthropology and bird studies.
Crawford said that one area of research might focus on how twins often develop their own language to communicate with each other.
Knowtown said she and her sister developed their own type of communi-
The twins, who are 33 years old, developed rapid speech patterns when talking to each other when in high school, almost to the point that others couldn't understand them.
"I'm starting to believe more and more that genetics plays a part in biology."
Her voice was a little scratchy, but it reflected enthusiasm for the days in high school when she and her sister were different people, trying to cope with problems of adolescence.
Schwartzburg, a former Western Civilization instructor and graduate student in philosophy, sat in Wescow on April 30 in a ponytail tied with a blue ribbon.
"We were always lumped together. My mother bought us identical shoes."
were treated as a unit — which may have contributed to our identity problems in high school," Schwartzburg said.
Wayne Osness, chairman of health,
physical education and recreation,
said he would be fingerprinting twins
and fitness clinic in a couple of weeks.
"It allows us to separate the genetic component of physical fitness from the environmental component." Osness said.
measure flexibility, neuromuscular function, aerobic capacity, body composition and pulmonary function.
Meredith Uttley, anthropology administrative assistant, said the registry's goals eventually were to
contact all twins born in Kansas since the 1940s and to branch out to Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and possibly Oklahoma.
Osness said the fitness clinic would
Uttley said twins would be assigned numbers to keep their identities confidential in research.
Twins interested in registering can call Uttley at 864-4172 from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesdays.
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