Wednesday 12 June 2013

Mohammadpur Umri

Umri (a village) is the producer of largest number of twins in the world. Umri can be referred as the village of twins. A small village located near Allahabad is famous for its unusual twin population, which is not only limited to humans but animals too. There are 120 twins living in this village of 2,500 families. The village boasts a twin mono-zygotic(MZ) or identical twin birth rate that is 300 times the national average and perhaps the highest in the world.

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