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:
When a twin dies before birth, the sole survivor needs help and understanding. Womb twin survivors are the sole survivors of a twin or multiple pregnancy. This group, 1 in 10 of the population, includes survivors of a stillbirth, miscarriage, abortion and a "vanishing twin" pregnancy. It is a story of a twin bond broken by death, leaving a lonely survivor.
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Sunday, June 05, 2011
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