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Monochorionic twins with the same blood karyotype of 46,XY/47,XYY but different phenotypes.
The journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research - 1 Feb 2010
Wuttikonsammakit Piyawadee, Tanawattanacharoen Somchai, Uerpairojkit Boonchai
Abstract excerpt
We report the case of a 13-year-old woman who was pregnant with phenotypically discordant monochorionic twins: one with cystic hygroma and hydrops, the other one normal. Fetal blood sampling was performed by intrahepatic blood collection for karyotyping of both fetuses, revealing the same genotype of 46,XY/47,XYY in 2:1 proportion. Phenotypic discordance in monozygotic twins can have various causes, such as...
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