Dysmorphism in One of a Set of Male Twins; Could They have been Identical Twins? A Diagnostic Dilemma

Twinning occurs worldwide, but Nigerian women of the southwest extraction record one of the highest rates in the world. Among the notable risk factors for fraternal twinning is advanced maternal age, which is also an independent risk factor for Down syndrome. Even as morphological characteristics ca...

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Autor principal: Ibrahim, Aliyu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4209690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25374872
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.141646
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description Twinning occurs worldwide, but Nigerian women of the southwest extraction record one of the highest rates in the world. Among the notable risk factors for fraternal twinning is advanced maternal age, which is also an independent risk factor for Down syndrome. Even as morphological characteristics can easily be applied to distinguish identical from fraternal twins, in cases of an associated dysmorphism, in any member of the couplet, it becomes a difficult tool to use, as has been observed in the case of a set of twins who were of the same sex, blood group, hemoglobin genotype, and shared the same placenta.
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spelling pubmed-42096902014-11-05 Dysmorphism in One of a Set of Male Twins; Could They have been Identical Twins? A Diagnostic Dilemma Ibrahim, Aliyu J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Twinning occurs worldwide, but Nigerian women of the southwest extraction record one of the highest rates in the world. Among the notable risk factors for fraternal twinning is advanced maternal age, which is also an independent risk factor for Down syndrome. Even as morphological characteristics can easily be applied to distinguish identical from fraternal twins, in cases of an associated dysmorphism, in any member of the couplet, it becomes a difficult tool to use, as has been observed in the case of a set of twins who were of the same sex, blood group, hemoglobin genotype, and shared the same placenta. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4209690/ /pubmed/25374872 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.141646 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_sort dysmorphism in one of a set of male twins; could they have been identical twins? a diagnostic dilemma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4209690/
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