Patchwork People
Let's talk of chimeras and mosaics and people.
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Identical twins, one case of Down syndrome: https://www.latimes.com/science/scien...
The fusion of two sisters into a single woman suggests that human identity is not in our DNA: https://english.elpais.com/science-te...
Jeremy Thorpe, Ikeoluwa A. Osei-Owusu, Bracha Erlanger Avigdor, Rossella Tuplerl, Jonathan Pevsner (2020) Mosaicism in Human Health and Disease. Annu. Rev. Genet. 2020. 54:487–510.
Vijg J (2000) Somatic mutations and aging: a re-evaluation. Mutation Research 447: 117–135.
Thompson DJ et al. (2019) Genetic predisposition to mosaic Y chromosome loss in blood. Nature 575:652-657,
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