Can a twin father twins?

Answer 1

Will the father be the genetic reason that a woman has twins ? NO!!!! Now he can pass the genetic factor on to his daughter if it runs in his family of having fraternal twins....ex. mother , sister , grandmother etc.....identical twin are a result of the egg splitting this has absolutely nothing to do with genetics and are not considered as hereditary....It is however up to the father to fertilize the two eggs that the mother has released......this is known as double ovulation and is sometimes hereditary! I hope this helps!!! To put it in black and white ...if the mother is pregnant with fraternal twins it is because she produced two eggs in one cycle in which the dad made fertile. Hope this helps!!!

Answer 2

No man is any more or less likely to father twins than any other man.

Single or nultiple births are decided by the mother.

Fraternal twins can be genetic. One woman might be more likely to have fraternal twins than another, As are older women. It is the mother releasing more than one egg so that the twins look no more like one another than any other set of siblings.

Identical twins are a freak of nature. No woman is any more likely than any other woman to have identical twins. Having identical twins does not increase your chances of having twins again.

Answer 3

Twins are caused by the mother not the father so it is still possible for a woman to have twins and for a man who is a twin to never bare them.

Answer 4

Yes, anyone can father twins. Being a twin yourself doesn't increase the odds of you having twins though. The increased chance of having twins comes when the mother has a history of fraternal twins in her family, if she is over the age of 30, or if the parents are African American.

Answer 5

My Grandfather was a twin and had twins with my grandmother, but it is the mother who has to either produce two eggs or one of her eggs, divide. My great grandmother had 3 sets of twins in the early 1900's and 2 single births. Thats a bunch! I wonder if she should be submitted into some medical journal or something....

Answer 6

Sure a twin can father twins but usually it is up to the female.

Usually it depends on if the women released two eggs instead of just the one she usually releases and it also depends on if two sperm enter one egg at the same time. Or one egg can split and make two seperate eggs to be fertilized.

So the father doesn't have to much to do with it.

Answer 7

Yes. But it depends on what type of twin he is. Identical twins (one sperm and one egg splits into 2 babies) are genetic. Fraternal twins (2 eggs, 2 sperm, become 2 babies) are not genetic. well, not exactly. the fact that the woman dropped 2 eggs may be. But an identical twin has a greater chance of having twins himself than a fraternal twin does.

Answer 8

This is a common misconception... whether they are identical or fraternal, when it comes to twins, it's all about the egg(s). With identicals, it's one egg that splits in two some time after conception, and with fraternals, it's two eggs that get released in the same menstrual cycle (known as hyperovulation) which are then fertilized by two different sperm.

So, the father has nothing to do with it... other than the obvious :-p

Answer 9

that is continuously possible to have twins. regardless of if there is not a unmarried twin on your relatives. yet genetic impact in effortless words counts if there are fraternal twins on your mom's facet. (this can make it slightly extra probable to launch better than one egg.) similar twins are thoroughly random, and fraternal twins on father's facet don't have any effect. Your odds are about one in 80 births, the same as the different lady.

Answer 10

I have always been told twins skip a generation so if your grandparent was a twin you could have twins if your parent was a twin then your kids could have them. Dont know if this is true or not but in my family my grandma was a twin and my cousin had them, hence skipping a generation.