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Monozygotic twin girls, both of whom had acute undifferentiated leukaemia and a 47,XX,+19 karyotype, are described. The case is discussed in terms of childhood leukaemia and the hypothesis that a single transformation event in utero may be responsible for leukaemia in twins.
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Hartley, S.E., Sainsbury, C. Acute leukaemia and the same chromosome abnormality in monozygotic twins. Hum Genet 58, 408–410 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00282824
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