CoTEDS: Children of Twins Study
The Children of TEDS study, or CoTEDS, was launched in 2017. We are collecting data from the children of the now grown-up TEDS twins, making this the first ever twin study to include information on both twin parents and their offspring. This will help us establish how different behaviours and traits are passed down through generations.
As the adult parents are twins, we are able to disentangle whether traits run in families because of genetic inheritance, because of living together, or both. This is because when identical twins have children, those children are as just as genetically similar to their parents as they are to the twin of their parent. However, it is only their own parent that will provide the child with their rearing environment, since the adult twin pairs will raise their respective children in different environments. Identifying the ways in which emotional problems are transmitted from one generation to the next provides clues for the best places to focus on in regards to intervention and early treatment.
If you are a TEDS twin and are interested in becoming a part of this research, please register with the link below for further information. It doesn't matter how much or how little you were were involved in past TEDS research, this is a new and equally exciting opportunity!
Find out more about the study here