{"id":88233,"date":"2019-02-28T13:23:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/rare-semi-identical-twins-discovered-during-australian-womans-pregnancy"},"modified":"2019-02-28T13:23:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T21:23:10","slug":"rare-semi-identical-twins-discovered-during-australian-womans-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/rare-semi-identical-twins-discovered-during-australian-womans-pregnancy","title":{"rendered":"Rare \u2018semi-identical\u2019 twins discovered during Australian woman\u2019s pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-semi-identical-twins-discovered-during-australian-womans-pregnancy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A rare set of semi-identical twins \u2013 only the second set ever reported in the world \u2013 have been identified in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/australia\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The now 4-year-old boy and girl from Brisbane share all of their mother\u2019s DNA but only a part of their father\u2019s DNA, making them identical on their mother\u2019s side but fraternal on their father\u2019s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qut.edu.au\/institute-of-health-and-biomedical-innovation\/about\/news\/news?id=140850\" target=\"_blank\">a statement detailing the discovery said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This was also the first time semi-identical twins have been identified during pregnancy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1701313\" target=\"_blank\">according to a case report<\/a> recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/rare-semi-identical-twins-discovered-during-australian-womans-pregnancy\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/rare-semi-identical-twins-dis...-pregnancy<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare set of semi-identical twins \u2013 only the second set ever reported in the world \u2013 have been identified in Australia. The now 4-year-old boy and girl from Brisbane share all of their mother\u2019s DNA but only a part of their father\u2019s DNA, making them identical on their mother\u2019s side but fraternal on their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}