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Timing of Twinning, X-Inactivation and Sex Proportion at Birth
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 February 2012
Abstract
Twins are not a homogeneous group. According to zygosity and chorionicity essential differences exist. The lower sex proportion at birth is due to the monozygotic twins, especially the monoamnionic variety. X-inactivation patterns in monozygotic twin girls are totally symmetrical in monoamnionic pairs, almost symmetrical in monochorionic diamnionic pairs and can be very asymmetrical in the dichorionic variety.
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