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Date Posted: 12:32:58 09/22/04 Wed
Author: Lapinette
Subject: Vanishing Twin Syndrome
In reply to: Abundance Guy 's message, "Re: Oops-- I should've also mentioned..." on 11:53:43 09/22/04 Wed

It seems that the twin can be absorbed by the mother, the placenta or the remaining twin:

<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic3411.htm">http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic3411.htm</a>

Kinda freaky.

Of course, all of this is mere speculation regarding Tyler. Maybe he has chimeric blood, maybe not. It's the only legit reason I can see for failing those two tests, though.

For his sake, I hope he really is a genetic oddity. If chimerism causes false positives, I hope this case brings the matter to light so innocent athletes aren't pilloried in the future, whether Tyler turns out to be clean or not.

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