Semi-identical twins discovered

@Riptide (2755)
United States
March 30, 2007 8:16pm CST
Scientists have discovered semi-identical twins.It's the worlds only known case. They are identical on their mothers side, but only share 50% of their genes on their fathers side. Read the full story here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6498215.stm
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mari61960
@mari61960 (4893)
• United States
31 Mar 07
Wow that's freaky. I wonder if they would have found out if one hadn't been a hermaphrodite. And then both are chimera's that's weird too. I wonder how many other cases there may be that they just don't know about..maybe it's not as uncommon as they think?
Riptide
@Riptide (2755)
• United States
31 Mar 07
That could be. Most of the time things like this are only discovered when they try to find the answer to other medicalproblems.
k1tten
@k1tten (2315)
• United States
31 Mar 07
Huh, this is quite odd. I would have never thought that this would happen.