Did you have a vanishing twin?

Scientists have identified certain kinds of chemical markers called epigenetic markers in the genomes of identical twins. Using this data, individuals can now determine if they were originally a twin in the womb and had a twin who vanished - a phenomena that is quite common. ThePrint’s Sandhya Ramesh explains new findings from the Netherlands and their implications in helping us understand how the environment alters our genetic information.
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Supplementary reading:
Identical twins carry a persistent epigenetic signature of early genome programming www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
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[@MyPoetik]

My mom didn't know I knew all my life I was seraching my brother so mentally I surffered a lot from that but I came to know why I was like that since I am much better

[@ESLhills]

From the time I was a little girl, I asked my mother where my twin was. I put things together as I got older. At 3 months pregnancy, she bled profusely. The doctor told her she was miscarrying and to go home and go to bed. Then - voila - there I was 6 months later. I always felt a loneliness, like something was missing. I figured I'd have to wait until heaven to find out for sure.

[@suvendum.p.7715]

This one was a complicated video 🙇‍♂️ So for people like me I am simplifying things, it goes like this- "Two embryos apply for birthing and after written, group discussion, personal interview only one is selected " and that's all.

[@aditiananya6171]

What are you saying these twins have to clear CAT before birth?

[@lori-lynngermain1333]

Thank you!! Do you know where to get the genetic test???

[@t5ruxlee210]

Then along comes the rare partially present twin or "chimera being" to complicate things even more. The result of two or more embryos somehow starting to develop then later merging and creating one viable, at least to some extent, even all the way up to what appears to be, one apparently normal baby.

[@MinhajAhmedAnsari]

People interested in epigenetics can read about The Dutch famine of 1944-45. Also the book 'The gene' by Siddartha Mukherjee is must read.

[@karansaxena1244]

Great sandhya

[@coolmrinx]

Hi can you please do a video on autism, reason and solution, humble request. Also why it is more prevalent in boys as compared to girls

[@jillelizabeth478]

@coolmrinx I heard a doc say once that estrogen protects the cells and that's why females are more rare than boys with autism. He gave more details, but that's all I remember.

[@bar_288]

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[@asepdawet6595]

this happened to me, when my mother was pregnant, during the initial check, my mother was told that she would have twins, at that time my mother became stressed because she didn't want to have twins and became sick, after some time, my mother did another check, and it turned out one of the twins was lost in the womb, the doctor explained that the 2 embryos had merged into one. I thought all this time, maybe this was just an error during the initial check, but it turns out cases like this do exist

[@laxmanshivakashipuram]

Informative

[@amberambie5840]

I had 2 separate sacs my healthy son was in 1 sac and there was a empty sac. I was 6-9 weeks along.

[@MyPoetik]

😢

[@bismashabib4315]

Did your HCG level drop

[@amberambie5840]

@@bismashabib4315 they never told me. Since I was pregnant when covid-19 first started spreading. They were quick to get me in and out. They didn't talk much so I took it as a positive thing.

[@diamondkisses26]

Same thing happened to me. My daughter is now almost 9.

[@shanianottwain6917]

@@diamondkisses26 I don't mean to pry, but did it affect your daughter in any way? Does she ever feel like part of her is missing or is she just like a child without a twin? I'm wondering because we lost one of our twin girls at 12 weeks, we know both were girls because of blood tests. I just want to know how this may affect my little survivor. I can't find anything about the effects on a surviving twin except medical effects. If she does feel like part of her is missing how do you comfort her through that? I just went to my 18 week ultrasound and now the twin is completely gone, nothing but an empty sac. I'm sorry if that is too personal of a question, I just want to know how to help her through it if she does grow up feeling like she's missing something.

[@jjava.bean5]

How do we get this test done??

[@AmericanDaigo]

That’s what I want to know too

[@Mr.Nobody5899]

Yeah, it was either him or me.

[@marleighbonner]

My cousin had a vanishing twin.

[@Vijayhemmadiprakash]

Feels like, the narrator of this video has deflected from the fundamental topic and severely jeopardized the integrity of the data. Rename this video as 12th class genetics.

[@Sumit-im7ql]

Why she looks malnourished these days?

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Wow 👍🏼👍🏼..

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[@bootsincommiass9937]

Damn is she pretty!!... 😂😂😂 This is the 3rd time I'm seeing that granny sweater in the thumbnail on her and still all I could lament about is why the hell she is not having a much lesser, much unsophisticated and therefore approachable identical twin!!... 😂😂

[@anuragdeshmukh8780]

Her reading style is so boring, I became deaf after watching first 2 minutes. This is one video is more harmful than 1000 TikTok videos or 500 cigarettes. This is the kind of video where I start praying for buffering.

[@ramshafatima7178]

She looked charming but is holding herself back so this has become boring. Like my lectures. I won't even listen to this till the end.

[@zil1832]

//Holding herself back// In what way?

[@darthkothicame7822]

True some are not realising what you meant. They're thinking you're advising wrt looks.

[@unknown..38]

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