Re: Conjoined twins?
From: Daniel Margulies (danymarg@fibertel.com.ar)
Wed Oct 15 00:34:38 2003
Dont know nothing about this conjoined twins.
Diferent gender?
Maybe a XY and one X0 having loose the Y?
>----- Original Message -----
From: "Allen Worrall" <jworrall@alaska.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 2:08 AM
Subject: Re: Conjoined twins?
> It is difficult to believe that they were boy and girl. Of course
conjoined
> twins are monozygotic, monochorionic, monoamniotic, and result from late
> separation of the zygote. Since they are monzygotic, conventional wisdom
> says they should be the same gender. If the report is true, boy and girl,
> how will the embryologists and geneticists explain this? Maybe some weird
> chromosomal problem - maybe they are not XX and XY but one of them is some
> sort of mosaic? Maybe ambiguous genitalia?
>
> I had not heard about this set in Rome, but there was something in the
paper
> about conjoined twins joined at the top of the head, operated here in the
> US, 34 hour operation, went OK.
>
> Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
>
> Allen
>
> Joseph A Worrall MD RDMS
> OB/GYN Ultrasound at the Fairbanks Clinic
> Fairbanks, Alaska, 99701
> jworrall@alaska.net
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>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ann Polin" <apolin@bcc.ctc.edu>
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> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 8:26 PM
> Subject: Conjoined twins?
>
> > Forgive me if there is something that I am missing, but does anyone know
> > anything about the Greek conjoined twins that were joined at the temple
> > and just separated? According to the article on CNN (see the website at:
> > http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/12/italy.twins.ap/index.html
> > they were a boy and a girl.
> >
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