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X-chromosome inactivation is mostly random in placental tissues of female monozygotic twins and triplets

✍ Scribed by Bamforth, Fiona; Machin, Geoffrey; Innes, Micheil

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 79 KB
Volume: 61
Category: Article
ISSN: 0148-7299
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19960122)61:3<209::aid-ajmg4>3.0.co;2-p

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Patterns of X-chromosome inactivation in chorion, amnion, and cord from 79 pairs of twins were examined. Seven sets of triplets were included in the analysis, both as twin pairs and triplets. Twins were stratified as dizygotic (DZ), monozygotic (MZ), monochorionic, and dichorionic and were selected for birth weight discordance, discordance for congenital anomalies, twin-twin transfusion syndrome, and various patterns of vascular anastomosis.

X-inactivation was predominantly symmetric. Chorion was the most likely tissue to show asymmetric X-inactivation and was found most frequently in MZ dichorionic twins. There was no correlation of X-inactivation pattern with the selected clinical criteria. This study does not confirm that asymmetric X-inactivation in embryonic tissues is a common phenomenon in female twins, including monozygotic twins.

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