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Leukemia in Twins: Antenatal and Postnatal Factors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2014
Abstract
Two factors emerged from a search for obstetric phenomena that might explain concordance of leukemia in both members of a twin pair within days or months of each other: antenatal exposure to ionizing radiation; and antenatal cojoined intrauterine circulation. In addition, antenatal tumor metastasis and chromosomal changes, antenatal or postnatal, may be contributory. Continued observation of reports should be carried out.
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- 9. Science For Twins/Twins For Science
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- Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 1976 , pp. 336 - 341
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- Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1976
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