Kodinji, India Baffles Doctors With Over 200 Sets Of Twins

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First Posted: 08- 5-09 09:10 AM   |   Updated: 08- 5-09 09:14 AM

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Kodinji India

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Walk around Kodinji village and you'll think that you have double vision.

The village is home to as many as 230 sets of twins. Nobody knows why there are so many twins in the village of 15,000 people, although one local doctor suspects it might be due to the water.

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Walk around Kodinji village and you'll think that you have double vision. The village is home to as many as 230 sets of twins. Nobody knows why there are so many twins in the village of 15,000 people...
Walk around Kodinji village and you'll think that you have double vision. The village is home to as many as 230 sets of twins. Nobody knows why there are so many twins in the village of 15,000 people...
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- Mekrabb I'm a Fan of Mekrabb 2 fans permalink

Baffled?

Its called centuries of inbreeding.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:54 PM on 08/05/2009
- Nobrun I'm a Fan of Nobrun 7 fans permalink

Arranged marriages within the community. Sometimes the couples are related.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:43 PM on 08/05/2009
- Oldtt I'm a Fan of Oldtt 37 fans permalink
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What the article failed to mention is that this same village has a large tree growing in the middle of town that has strange glowing fruit.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:16 PM on 08/05/2009
- avchavis I'm a Fan of avchavis 203 fans permalink
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ROTFL!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:20 PM on 08/05/2009
- NHGranite I'm a Fan of NHGranite 55 fans permalink
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In my high school graduating class of about 300, when they had kids, there were at last count 8 sets of twins.

I had twin friends and what they could do was mystifying. When they played Kweskin's ESP game, they got 8 of 10 correct answers when one held the card and the other guessed. Might have had more matches, but we were freaking out. So then, someone else held up the card and the twins wrote down their answers: except they wrote down the same answer as the other, and only had 1 match to the card holder. They were mirror twins and watching them draw the same symbol on paper with opposite hands - one was left handed, the other right handed - was also pretty weird!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:04 PM on 08/05/2009
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Monsanto or Dow Chemical?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:43 PM on 08/05/2009
- jweider I'm a Fan of jweider 30 fans permalink
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In a country of 1.1 billion people interbreeding, things are bound to get genetically screwed up eventually.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:03 PM on 08/05/2009
- tommy8 I'm a Fan of tommy8 3 fans permalink

Why does all the weird stuff always happen in India?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:14 PM on 08/05/2009

"with about 35-45 twins per live birth..."

huh?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:42 PM on 08/05/2009
- psbintl I'm a Fan of psbintl 19 fans permalink
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I am an identical twin and this interests me!

:)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:41 PM on 08/05/2009
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers II, The Sequel

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:41 PM on 08/05/2009
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This is very easy to figure out.

Obviously, some male inhabitant of the village, with twin genes in his DNA, is getting very, VERY busy with all his neighbors wives.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:09 PM on 08/05/2009

I'm Guilty as charged.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:53 PM on 08/05/2009

Genetics FAIL.

There's no established connection between a particular gene and an increased rate of identical twins. And the main cause of fraternal twins lies with the mother, not the father.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:16 PM on 08/05/2009
- DeSwiss I'm a Fan of DeSwiss 32 fans permalink
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I recall reading an article back in 2007, about a similar instance of increased numbers of twins in the village of Igbo-Ora, Nigeria:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2007-11/13/content_6249808.htm

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:35 PM on 08/05/2009
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Ah, here we go.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM7LJUQX-4o

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:21 PM on 08/05/2009
- anoise I'm a Fan of anoise 2 fans permalink
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Having twins is hereditary­... Isolated village, many twins marrying other twins... no big mystery.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:53 PM on 08/05/2009
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Or one of the village's male citizens is getting around a lot.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:07 PM on 08/05/2009
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A self sustained village as this with all these twins must have no problem concentrating.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:18 PM on 08/05/2009
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