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Medical Conditions - Fraternal Twins

Fraternal twins also termed as dizygotic twins are different from monozygotic (identical) twins as fraternal twins are formed from fertilizing two different eggs and sperm in the same pregnancy. The appearance may not be the same in these twins. Fraternal twins share half their genomes.

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