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At the 110th annual scientific sessions of the
Sri Lanka Medical Association.
28th March 1997 at Hotel Lanka Oberoi

Session on Twin Research 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Friday 28 March 1997

Chaired By:

Professor Rohan Jayasekera
Professor of Anatomy and The Director/Consultant Clinical Geneticist, Human Genetics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.



Formal Presentations:

Prof. Rohan Jayasekera.
"Place of Twin Studies in Sri Lanka."

Dr. Alison Macdonald
Lecturer, The Section of Genetic Epidemiology and Statistics, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, U.K.
"Twin studies in medical research: Overview of the past, present and future."

Dr. Anette Jepson
Senior Wellcome Research Fellow, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford.U.K.
"The twin studies on Malaria, Tuberculosis in Africa. Gambian experience."

Dr. A. Sumathipala
Senior Registrar, Maudsley and Bethlem Royal NHS Hospital Trust, London U.K
"Details of the proposed twin registry for Sri Lanka"