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A prenatal case misunderstood as specimen confusion: 46,XY/46,XY chimerism.
BMC pregnancy and childbirth - 12 Feb 2024
Chen Lin, Wang Li, Zeng Yang, Yin Daishu, Tang Feng, Xie Dan, Zhu Hongmei, Li Lingping, Wang Jing
Abstract excerpt
Chimerism results from the fusion of two zygotes in a single embryo, whereas mosaicism results from mitotic errors in a single zygote. True human chimerism is rare, with fewer than 100 cases reported in the literature. Here, we report a case in which the fetus was identified as having tetragametic chimerism based on short tandem repeat - polymerase chain reaction analysis of the family observed during...
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