Welcome to the website of the TAMBA Heritability Study 

Tamba has established a collaboration with Professor Maurice Zeegers at the University of Birmingham to initiate one of the UK’s largest studies on multiple births: The Tamba Heritability Study. 

In this collaboration Tamba aims to stimulate scientific research into multiple births, twins’ development and child health which it is hoped will be of special interest to Tamba families and will benefit future generations of twins and multiple births. 

Early next year we will ask our members past and present and members of local Twins Clubs to complete an online questionnaire about yourself and your twins. Based on this initial data, the scientific research into twins’ development will begin and if you wish you can receive immediate feed back on your twins’ development compared to the average.  To encourage your participation in this new research project, you will be entered into a prize draw and at a future date offered the opportunity to have a free zygosity test (the test to determine whether your twins are identical or not). 

We think it is important to involve our members in every step of this important new research avenue, so if you think that medical science should research a particular aspect of twinning or child health please let us know using this email link. We will try to accommodate your wishes in the research. 

Once the study is launched next Spring we will bring you regular updates on how to participate and how to learn about the ongoing findings in this column of the magazine. 

For more information please contact  Keith Reed, Director of TAMBA

Maurice Zeegers, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology