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To: HangnJudge; chesley

https://www.reference.com/science/can-boy-girl-identical-twins-f20c37b6ec0408c1

I read somewhere that the boy of the twin pair can be affected also so that he has only a Y chromosome, but that is not mentioned in this article.


57 posted on 12/03/2019 9:15:08 AM PST by mom of young patriots
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To: mom of young patriots

https://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/2250_Chromosome_Genetics_2016_short.html

chromosome missing
...non-disjunction in meiosis
......X (XO) humans: Turner Syndrome ( 2n = 45, X)
......Y (YO) humans: fatal in utero

YO non-viable fetus


64 posted on 12/03/2019 9:32:05 AM PST by HangnJudge (Kipling was right about Humanity)
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To: mom of young patriots

Don’t like the thought of that


75 posted on 12/03/2019 10:22:56 AM PST by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: mom of young patriots

Most Turner’s cases are singletons, not twins. And the linked article on ‘twin’ cases can’t qualify as ‘identical’ twins. Even though the somatic chromosomes would be identical as would the shared X chromosome the non-shared Y would render them non-identical at first glance in the delivery room and also by even rudimentary genetic testing. And they’d diverge further over time as the genetically normal brother would grow normally whereas his sister would stay short, even by girl standards, as well as display the signs of Turner’s. Although they’d probably be easily recognizable as siblings.


79 posted on 12/03/2019 11:13:40 AM PST by JohnBovenmyer (waiting for the tweets to hatch)
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