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J Obstet Gynaecol
July 2011
Child Health, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Eaton Road, Liverpool L12 2AP, UK.
J Hum Genet
March 2005
Department of Human Genetics, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-12-4 Sakamoto , Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan.
Although monochorionic (MC) dizygotic twins (DZT) are extremely rare in natural pregnancy, six pairs of such twins have successively been reported in a recent short period. All six cases of MC DZT were the products of pregnancy by assisted reproductive technology (ART). In this overview, we summarize these six cases and discuss possible mechanisms of this twinning and clinical implications of confined blood cell chimerism (CBC).
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