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Tributes to Althea Hayton

Althea Hayton, founder of Womb Twin, passed away peacefully on August 13 (sorry for the delay in posting this news on the blog). We are all ...

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Sunday, June 05, 2011

Womb twin survivors and chimeras: The eyes have it

When two non-identical ( dizygotic) embryos merge one into the other, the result is one individual with a mix of DNA. The physical effects of carrying a load of someone else's DNA is  to have eyes of different colours or have one eye a different colour from the  other.  This condition is called heterochromia.

There are some well- known people whose eyes signal their status as a womb twin survivor who merged with  their twin shortly after conception: