IGHE and Allergy: For example, in a study of 58 twins, aged 0–11 years from the United States, there was significant excess in the similarity between MZ compared with DZ twins for overall atopy and total IgE, but in the subgroup of twins where both had allergy, both twins had skin test reactivity to the same allergen in only two out of 15 DZ sets, and in none of 9 MZ sets [Yilmaz-Demirdag et al., 2010].