Identical twins are not genetically identical

by John on June 12, 2008

Researchers recently discovered that identical twins are not genetically identical after all. They differ in the copy numbers of their genes. They have the same genes, but each may have different numbers of copies of certain genes.

Source: “Copy That” by Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, May 2008.

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