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Klinefelter twins presenting with discordant aneuploidies, acardia, forked umbilical cord and with different gonadal sex despite monozygosity.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Feb 2012
Rehder Helga, Schoner Katharina, Kluge Britta, Louwen Frank, Schwinger Eberhard, Neesen Juergen
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: A higher frequency of twin births in sibships of Klinefelter syndrome patients and also monozygotic or dizygotic twins, themselves being affected by Klinefelter syndrome have been noted repeatedly. To address this issue, we evaluated type and frequency of twinning among Klinefelter fetuses that we had received for autopsy within a 'Prenatal Diagnosis' program. METHOD: We performed fetal autopsies, and...
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