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Mechanisms for differences in monozygous twins.
Early human development - 1 Sept 2001
Gringras P, Chen W
Abstract excerpt
Monozygous (MZ) twins are often described as being physically and genetically identical. Clinical determination of zygosity relies on the assumption that any physical differences between a pair of twins imply they are dizygous. Most twin research relies on the assumption that dizygous twins share approximately 50% of the same genes, whereas monozygous twins share 100%. There is, however, increasing evidence to...
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