Re: Identical or Fraternal?

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My daughter says it has not been observed in humans (yet). But if it did happen, it could explain why some fraternal twins could pass for identical, as polar body twins would be sort of identical, but not quite.

Chris S. >
>At Thu, 11 Nov 1999, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
>>
>>In a message dated 11/11/99 5:58:56 PM Central Standard Time,
>>smithy@maine.rr.com writes:
>>
>><< Apparently in some cases, this polar
>> body develops into a functioning egg which can be fertilized along with
>> the other egg. If this did occur in humans, babies resulting from this
>> type of twinning would technically be from the same original egg, but
>> fertilized by different sperm. >>
>>
>>Very interesting.
>>
>>:o)
>>
>>Jennifer

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