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some of that twins dna seemed to have survived
I had fun doing a tad bit of reading about chimeras in humans and other mammals last night. DD had some questions after I mentioned the term relating to surgical transplants.

Marmosets have been studied for chimerism occurring naturally. A common birth is 2 or more babies, so fraternal twins. Relatively often they share tissue. 🐒. 🐒. Ha!

I did only a skim of a 21 page pdf file. But, you can find a sentence or 2 about it and the reference link in Wikipedia LINK

BTW. A person's tissue from one part of the body showing up elsewhere in his/her body is not uncommon.

Steve
 
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