Report | 16-October-2019
Chimerism is a phenomenon in which an individual has cells with different genetic content from different zygotes. In dizygotic twins (DTs), chimerism is believed to occur through placental anastomoses that enable the bidirectional exchange of hematopoietic stem cells. Little is still known about chimerism frequency in twins, but several studies have shown a relation between chimerism and some conditions such as autism, Alzheimer’s disease, and a group of autoimmune diseases such as Sj
Letícia Tavares,
Daiane Cobianchi da Costa,
Anna Paula de Borba Batschauer,
Luiz Fernando Job Jobim,
Gisele Menezes Ewald,
Carolina de Mello,
Eduardo Samuel Alvarez Velazquez,
Alexandre Geraldo
Immunohematology, Volume 34 , ISSUE 4, 151–157