Why does this town have so many twins? - BBC News
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- Cândido Godói is a village of 7,000 inhabitants in the south of Brazil that has a phenomenal number of twin births.
The rate is ten times higher than the national average, and no one knows why.
A team of geneticists have been working with the community for a number of years, sampling DNA and learning about families, in an effort to solve the mystery.
BBC News went to meet some of the twins and hear more about the village's history.
Video journalist: Gibby Zobel
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“Why does this town have so many twins?”
*does not answer the question*
Greg Caesar You really don’t know how rhetorical questions work... :(
Greg Caesar Why are you so salty...?
Greg Caesar Calm it down Greg :)
@@miniena7774
Seriously stop it, it's not funny, you're acting like a 10-y-o and this guy did nothing wrong to you...
@@miniena7774
You're so childish, just grow up.
are you telling me that half of the population of this town wasn't planned?
Joan Marco lol that's kinda of a glass half empty kind of statement.
Well it's a town known for having so many twins so I think they expected it to be a twin already.
Lol it was totally planned
XD
they probs kept trying until it was twins
0:59 that's basically the answer to the question
For now ;-)
Thx now I don’t have to watch this boring video!!!!
GMM Productions lol
you don't really believe it's because of the water, right?
GMM Productions you never HAD to lol
I’m a Triplet and it so fun because you have somebody at your age and you’re never lonely
Wow a triplet amazing!
Damn, is it all girls, boys or mixed??
WOW
Damn you're so lucky! I've always wanted a twin, what more being triplets😂. Are you all girls, all boys or mixed?
Im a twin lol 😂 its actually kinda annoying because people wouldn't recognize the both of you and some would do it on purpose. But after all its still fun because I get to have someone who thinks the same lol 😂
You can make another town.. (the twin split up in different towns.. and both towns have the same houses.. roads etc.. ) imagine if you are a tourist..
Alice in The Land of Dawn that’s gonna be like a parallel universe right there 😂
that’d actually be so funny
someone should make a movie on this like a horror mystery kind of thing
Alice in The Land of Dawn lol
@@charezestamatelaky6218 OMG yes.. it's so hard to speak in English. Cuz it's not. My native language.. bty tnx for clarifying that..😍😍😍
Twins are more likely to have twins themselves or their children have twins someday. So if two pair of twins marry each other there is a very high possibility of having twins. I wonder how many people have moved to this village from somewhere else. If the village was built from 15-20 families and not many strangers moved in they have a very small blood line
Only fraternal twins are more likely to have twins but identical twins and the same chance as someone who is not a twin to have twins .
There might be a genetic factor that hasn't been identified yet. If so, this just seems like the founder effect.
Fraternal twins come from the mother, as she produces multiple eggs. The multiple ovulation gene can be PASSED DOWN from a father to a daughter, but he himself cannot 'force' a woman to ovulate multiple times in one cycle. Therefore, two parents who are twins themselves does not increase the chance of multiples more than it already would have been increased by just the mother being a twin. It is also different with identicals.
Davie Lawrence yes if they are fraternal which they are clearly not
The fact that they're all mostly identical twins suggests the cause is maternal in origin since identical twins split from a singular fertilized egg
That sounds like trivially true. Like: "one-egg twins" are "one-egg twins."
@@rursus8354 It's basically the only logical option. There is nothing a father can do to influence the chance of having twins, identical or fraternal. Identical twins aren't caused by genetics (supposedly), and fraternal twins are either caused by total chance or maternal family history. Mitochondrial DNA could offer an explanation here as it only carries the maternal DNA. Just my thoughts on the subject
This place is amazing, imagine a city where everyone is automatically born with a friend
Loved the last twin brothers 😍
keyaa the bearded guys?
Honestly twin beard goals
cool. they looked a bit like charles manson though )
They were cool!
5:51, not my type
The south of Brazil is fantastic!
Very interesting this report about Candido Godoi a small Brazilian city in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
My grandma and grandpa from my dad's side live in a pretty small town near Cândido Godói and I remember being creeped out by so many twins when I was a little child. It was good to watch this video! It reminds me of my childhood :)
The same x-chromosome is passed from mother to daughter (and preserved through generations), so it is possible that in a closed community a mutated x-linked gene would be amplified. This could be further boosted by the fact that the gene results in two carriers being born vs any other variation of the x-chromosome (positive evolutionary selection pressure). This gene could have removed any other x-chromosome variations from the gene pool over a few generations.
I was thinking the same thing and I was wondering why they are not proposing this as a theory, instead of the whole Mengele stuff
Idk wtf you just said but ok i agree
Can. You. Please. Type. In. English.
Agree, they must be a closed community.
Would this theory apply to identical twins as well
Having a twin is a blessing.
Bullet 285 ikr
Having a twin is a blessing but me(I am an Identical twin) its worse,Sharing your birthday to your twin,You don't have personal time,You look the same and we don't have any difference on our own appearance.and its a curse for me.
I love being a twin..but other twins freak me out. Don't know why.
@@raeannewood better for you,My experience being a twin is worse as hell,I've got an annoying twin brother but im just the opposite of him but the same appearance,I wish I was a fraternal twin not identical.
@@JRusselNV I'm identical as well and the worst thing is being called "twin" or " girls" we have our own names. My parents also expect me to know what my twin is thinking and doing at each and every second. With strangers I get the annoying twin questions. The best question " what's it like to be a twin?" To which I responded "what's it like NOT to be a twin?". So it's other people I find annoying not necessarily my twin.
It must be hard to solve any crime that happens there
Parallel crime
false.. Southern Brazil has the LOWEST crime rate than any other brazilian regions
@@dragoslavdelavega558 : I know Detroit is pretty bad
@@danrook5757 most US DEMOCRATIC BLUE run cities are runned by criminals
There is a twin village in India as well
@Mas Gonderawi na. All local Indias
Well guess what? This is a TOWN!
I hate India
And Nigeria
In the Indian state of Kerala, there is a similar twin town...
that's really cool.
which one?
Where bro I also from kerala but I don't know
Kodinhi.
Isn't there another one in the Pacific Islands? I remember reading about it, pretty sure there is one.
It looks more European than Europe.
It's Definitely whiter than America. Which is practically Mexico and Africa now.
JAMES WHITELEY is another Russianstani 💩 propagandist
Yes anybody with the ability to critically think for themselves is a Russian bot.
Retro that's how I like it
JAMES WHITELEY well if you weren’t such an idiot, you would know that southern Brazil is mostly of Germanic ancestry and not as mixed as the rest of Brazil. Besides, southern Brazil very rarely mixed with other non Germanic Europeans let alone other races
Unbelievable!! I'm an identical twin too and being around so many other twins must make this town an interesting place to live, yet by now they should have an idea since the research has been going on since the late 1990's!
It's a blessing regardless!!
Twinpowerzz😁👬👭👯♂️
since the 1940's actually. look up joseph mengele and his experiments
O segredo está no chimarrão
😁😁😁😁
Welp, I betta plan my trip to Brazil starting next year. I would love to have twins 😔.
Haha but you need to go to the South lol.
They're racist. You better not.
In Nigeria there is a village/town that has a similar increased rate of high twins ratio. Some say it is due to the food (Yam) they eat.
When u are beautiful u deserve to come twice . It's just a big blessing from God. Just give thanks.
yes... m jealous. I wanna have twins.. too someday💚💚💚💚😊😊
Thanks for share
Just, this is amazing. I'm amused. ❤️
It makes me remember a film: The Boys From Brazil, is about Joseph Mengele, the Nazist experience, and the twins.
Just an isolated Genepool.
Muito Show
this is crazily amazing to me
1:00 "No-one knows why this is happening"
In Argentina. .Misiones. .very close to Brazil there is a town where there are many twins too. .some people say there was a German scientist who made experiments
Which experiment plz tell me i want twins
@@mariyanayab7037 Dr Menguele was famous for trying about that...I can't explain because I'm not a doctor... you should look for Dr Menguele in Brazil...
How fascinating
This is so cool
Viva a gauchada!!! Mas batcheeee!!!!:):)
I'm no scientist but i think it's the water
That's why you're not a scientist LOL
@@feikotemme8736 u dont know the answer either even if ur a "scientist"
Or Mengele that lived there...
Wow thats amazing
Wow, I live in Brazil and I have never ever heard of this City before. Pretty cool ♥️
Já ouvi falar dessa cidade no Jornal Hoje, faz muito tempo.
I’m a twin and I found this so fascinating. One day I’d love to take my sister here for holiday and join the celebrations 🎊
There are two things in life for which we are never fully prepared.
Twins.
Wow lovely town
Incridible .
It's in Brazil!!❤🇧🇷
Todo mundo viu
There's a twin town in Nigeria
Exactly,I guess thasthe village with highest rate of twins in the world.
That’s so cool
What if twins marries twins,do their kids also look like twins?
Hiccup that’s incest
Maybe,maybe maybe.
In my country, one twins that get married with twins got media coverage. I think more than 15 years have passed already, their children do not look identical, maybe just like siblings but not that similar though.
I read about this they would be cousins but also genetic siblings. Not literal siblings but share the same genetics as the cousins.
Hiccup Nope.
They are so lucky! I love twins and want a pair of twin boys.
Josef mengala fled there and had found the genetic key to twins, experimented there in Brazil and was very successful
I love this story as a daughter of a twin and mother of two sets this rings home.I want a twin😥
Now, I wanna go there..
2:19 wow two of them 👌🏻👌🏻
This is so interesting !!
The boys ...and girls from Brazil.
I understood the reference!
Also in Philippines there have a island called alabat have full of twins in 2018 they found 100 pairs of twins
Wow!
Here in Brazil we have many cultures and the South of Brazil is a very beautiful place to visit. Europeans who have immigrated in the past have brought their experience of life and work to the region
I knew there was so many Germans in Brazil.
True, the Italian tradition is so strong in my city, we have plantation fields, restaurants and annual festivals to celebrate the Italian culture
I am from Germany. Are they integrated well in brazilian society or they are under themselves?
@@thomasthomasphilp4393 are above our society, here being white is a privilege. I am of Serbian and Italian descent, I have blue eyes and many praise me, it's like a standard of beauty. the south and southeast of Brazil are like the most European part of the country.
@@thomasthomasphilp4393 They integrated,yes,but did not assimilate to the portuguese base as the spanish/italian/french culture/influence did.
2:15 mano, eles são extremamente idênticos
SIMMMMM
Simmmm
This town is BLESSED!
wow i'm brazilian and i've never heard of this town before
guys, this is the brazilian people. You will not think that we all love football, and we dance samba very well, that we are tanned, it is not true.
we are too diverse to be summed up in three things. The truth is that we are mostly white or of European origins, among them (Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Russian and Poland)
Hope this helps
"we are mostly white"
@@english3082 "we are mostly diverse"
@@english3082 In South yeah we are absolute majority.
Answer: *"I dunno…"*
Wasn't a twin village somewhere in Asia too? i think the most plausible reason has to do with isolation from other groups/villages.
Double the fun
I would be interested if a foreigner moved there and lived there a while if they would have twins.
This is nothing, the number and percentage of twin births in igbo-ora in Nigeria astronomically dwarfs this town both in number and percentage.
And has been Confirmed by Indian jornal of Human genetics, business insider, a study done by PLOS ONE, AFP, Los Angeles times etc all did different independent studies which all affirms this and more.
Exactly
As I was reading, I was waiting to see this and I'm not disappointed. Thank you. 🇳🇬
Where exactly is this pls
@@sharonm-a7580 Nigeria, in West Africa. Igbo Ora in Oyo State, South Western Nigeria, is easily the twin capital of the world: unconfirmed estimates from the town say it boasts a mind-blowing 158 sets of twins for every 1000 live births.
czcams.com/video/6OO892iyGa0/video.html
Josef Mengele lived in Nigeria too? Its weird that Mengele lived in this brazilian city for a long time.
Cooooool
BBC news thanks queen like to appreciate you absolutely wonderful
There’s a tribe in Nigeria just like that, the Yoruba people
Twins are cute especially when they get older ❤️😍
Nigeria has the town with the highest number of twin births in the world. The town is called Igbo Ora. Plenty of videos online dating back many years before this video. Nigeria takes the award for twin births 😁
I live in Australia and my gamily has 2 sets of twins like the only in muswellbrook
There 20 millions of germans descendents in Brazil
and so what?
True.
*5 milhões
Mas tipo, a maioria é no sul , que merda
mas e daí?
Rio Grande do Sul Brazill
This looks like my family, two sisters who are twins, my dad, both his parents, his grandfather and his great grandfather.
Would be perfect for experimenting on nature vs nurture
3:50 sorry😂❤️
such a blessed set of people , I love twins they are indeed beautiful and I've always prayed that I will deliver a pair someday
# scientists need to leave those people alone cause science can sometimes lead to a downfall with nature's course
so cute all of them are twins.. 😍😊
Cool.
Kerala (a southern Indian state)has a same village of multiple twins
Boys from Brazil. That’s it
ok but this is rlly cool
In Kerala,india there is a village named kodinji same thing
*Imagine going there drunk*
I’m a twin🤗
Me too
Cool, I’m not.
Two of my friends have twin sisters, though.
@@lesfrog649 I have cousins that are triplets
Interesting
Do you are italian?
Being a Brazil and having a twin, this feels funny, to have BBC talking about it
the girl on the right on the thumbnail look like she is possessed
Lima Jamir wtf
lol true
Clones.
Wow
Me and my twin was watching this video simultaneously
Plot twist : they just are clones
I find this weird.
Why?
wow
I would go live there
I bet Mabel and Dipper could solve this
🤔📚🤔🌈
Cuando casi terminan la oración en español y lo joden al final 😂
It's Portuguese.
The language is portuguese. 😉
The video talk about Cândido Godoi, a city from south Brazil.
eita
💖💖💖
*2:15** better shut up* 🤐😹
Imagine a world with twin trumps. One good, one evil. Lol no jk. One trump mofo is more than enough.
Can the UK take him? He might close our borders.
Chuck there are two Trumps but not twins it was achieved with plastic surgery. Botching the hair in exactly the same way was difficult. Just like there are two Nicole Kidmans. The real Nicole has an entirely different face structure if you are paying attention she does the plays in London. The other one is married to a country and western singer and used for interviews, press and the bad movies. You can't make this shit up.
Before Trump was president he always went to his siblings to borrow money to help him during the 6 times he went bankrupt (google it). He'd probably drain his twin dry too if he had one.
Riccy R Woah really?! Jesus! I hope he paid them back or something!
Hmm wouldve been nice to see a good, decent Hillary Clinton though
Now I'm just picturing sets of twins getting married and living under one roof. If that's not a TLC show already I'm sure it'll come.
My grandfathers brother and wife had twins, my grandfather and grandmother had twins, my aunt had twins, I had twins, 2 of my cousins and their spouses had twins, my daughter and her husband have twins