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The Liverpool chimaera
1Mersey Regional Blood Transfusion Service, Liverpool, UK.
Vox Sanguinis
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
A dispermic human chimaera is described who is a fertile female XX/XY chimaera. The chimaera was discovered due to anomalies found during routine antenatal testing. The patient had two red cell populations differing in three blood group systems; ABO, Rh and MN. Analysis of cultured lymphocytes showed 70% of cells to have the 46, XY male karyotype and analysis of cultured skin cells showed 30% of cells to have the 46, XY karyotype.