Two cases of atypical twinning: Phenotypically discordant monozygotic and conjoined twins

Atypical twinning highlights that complex mechanisms responsible for twinning are not fully understood and may give further insight into the mechanisms involved. To assume that phenotypic difference is the result of dizygotic twinning would be erroneous and could have significant implications in the...

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Autores principales: Barnes‐Davis, Maria E., Cortezzo, DonnaMaria E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31110715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2113
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spelling pubmed-65099342019-05-20 Two cases of atypical twinning: Phenotypically discordant monozygotic and conjoined twins Barnes‐Davis, Maria E. Cortezzo, DonnaMaria E. Clin Case Rep Case Reports Atypical twinning highlights that complex mechanisms responsible for twinning are not fully understood and may give further insight into the mechanisms involved. To assume that phenotypic difference is the result of dizygotic twinning would be erroneous and could have significant implications in the care and counseling provided to these patients. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6509934/ /pubmed/31110715 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2113 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Two cases of atypical twinning: Phenotypically discordant monozygotic and conjoined twins
title Two cases of atypical twinning: Phenotypically discordant monozygotic and conjoined twins
title_full Two cases of atypical twinning: Phenotypically discordant monozygotic and conjoined twins
title_fullStr Two cases of atypical twinning: Phenotypically discordant monozygotic and conjoined twins
title_full_unstemmed Two cases of atypical twinning: Phenotypically discordant monozygotic and conjoined twins
title_short Two cases of atypical twinning: Phenotypically discordant monozygotic and conjoined twins
title_sort two cases of atypical twinning: phenotypically discordant monozygotic and conjoined twins
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31110715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2113
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