TWINS KODINJI VO 040609

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• Description : MALAPPURAM, Kerala: By its external...(more) features, Kodinji is just like any other village in Kerala. Tap on the doors of a few homes, one will find all the difference as the hamlet has an unusually large number of 'twins' born over the years. As per the latest figures, as many as 204 multiple-births had taken place in the village in the last few decades. The strange phenomenon has begun to attract the interest of scientists who want to find out if it was a mere accident or due to some genetic factors that the village has so many multiple births over the years. A division of the Nannambra Panchayat near Tirurangadi town, the palm-fringed village surrounded by backwaters on three sides has slightly over 2000 families. It has a sound socio-economic profile since a good number of families have people working in the Gulf. Until a few years ago, the frequency of multiple births in the Muslim-dominated hamlet had gone largely unnoticed. It was a voluntary survey conducted by twin sisters Sameena and Saleena a few years back that brought the phenomenon to focus. A door-to-door enumeration by a team of students from a high school recently found that 204 pairs (408 individuals) were born in the village over the last few decades. According to Abdul Latheef, a teacher from the area, the survey showed that 79 pairs are in the 0-10 age group, which is an indication that the multiple births have increased in the last ten years. Of the pairs born over the years, 26 pairs had been left as singles due to the death of their same-delivery siblings. The village also had two triplets, now of nine years and three years each. As per the information, the first twins of the village Kunhikkadia and Alavi were born 59 years ago. The phenomenon has attracted the attention of an expert from the Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, who has sent a detailed questionnaire to the families having the experience of 'multiple births'. According to Dr Mukunda Varma of the local Primary Health Centre (PHC), the phenomenon certainly deserved a detailed scientific examination. But on his part, he has so far not come across any biological or physical peculiarity in the people in the area. For the first time in the country, the village is also going to have an association of parents of twin children later this month, Latheef, who has taken the initiative for it, said (less)