twins are passed down through the mother's genes.
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Women who are themselves fraternal twins have a 10% chance of producing twins, identical twin women have only a 0.6% probability of having a twin birth.
The fact that twins run in families is actually a myth. The odds of twins having twins is the same as a non-twin having twins. That is about 1 in 33.
i say that identical twins are the least rare because like me a fraternal twin i only know 1 pair of fraternal twin.
you could but it normally skips a generation
I know of two pairs of twins in the bible Jacob and Esau, and Thomas and his twin.