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Twin data from this study, together with previous material containing explicit information on zygosity, suggest that true concordance of a particular neural tube anomaly occurs only in monozygotic (MZ) twins. It also seems that even ASB concordance occurs in DZ twins only at a rate comparable with recurrence in siblings. This confirms the earlier refutation (Field and Kerr, 1974) of the supposition of Nance (1971) that MZ twin pairs are strikingly discordant for ASB compared with DZ pairs. However, the evidence seems to go further than Field's assertion that MZ and DZ pairs are affected about equally. Concordance in DZ twins is in comparison with sibling data, but MZ pairs show a significantly higher rate of concordance in both categories. 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