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How would you know if you're a chimera if no one ever bothered to look? https://t.co/UKgXN44d95
Its a really fascinating thing to explore if you're interested in gestational factors that might drive autism.https://t.co/4XtN1aBoFV
If twinning is a something that can be genetically predisposed for. Then that suggests that autism could be partly driven by twin genetics. But that raises the question... HOW?Maybe it's the vanishing twin phenomena.https://t.co/M36Rs51OEU
IQ is known to be weird in autism. What if interwomb competition for resources lead to fusion of twins because there wasn't enough nutrients?That would explain higher rates of 'mental retardation'. Twinning could make it easier to gestate under scarcity.https://t.co/f6zl5pWx7T
@MilitantHobo @dpovey1 @S_Gallienne @Aella_Girl With so much of IQ being driven by early development trajectory important for brain development, it strikes me that these aren't good models for exploring cognitive ability. I haven't found a good explanation for why we think twins ought to. https://t.co/J5G2a3WNVM
A partial form of this could also explain why even when twinning is successful, there is often a bias toward one twin having more sever symptoms.https://t.co/7CIcLu1r7J
Chimerism may be way more common than we realize, but no one bothers to check.https://t.co/O0r35McfGr
@healingfear @Alzubair007 @BretWeinstein I'm trying to figure out if I'm a chimera. Apparently this is common in Autism because of weird immune problems that show up in twinning (the evil twin is about a Fetus who's body was absorbed by the other).Not avail on most gene tests sadly.https://t.co/DxYL2QdrOY
In most cases, chimerism isn't visible. It takes weird health issues and notable skin distortions to get doctors to even bother to look for it.https://t.co/5DYMlge3dL
There are often a lot of weird problems that can stem from having twins. If the gestation isn't healthy (twins are quite stressful on the body), then it can lead to strange gestational autoimmune diseases manifesting.https://t.co/QDjHfrdHZz
THe most obvious way to tell there may be a chimera phenomena is by Blaschko’s lines. However That isn't the only way that chimerism manifests. You can get double-faced kinds just like the chimera cats. Or just the lower body. https://t.co/kvLAoOQL7I https://t.co/GKqZjtT2NI
I found case reports of people with "Lichen Planus" (an autoimmune skin disease) that manifests along Lines of Blaschko. https://t.co/ZcgGghOEoc
A genetic chimera where half the body has TRP receptors that bias one way, and another half that has calcium deposition proteins that cause skin issues? Not impossible.How this impacts blood flow would explain her healthy feet skin, but diabetic hands.
Weirder shit has happened."But what makes this man’s case unusual is that some of the cells he obtained from his twin were apparently germline cells, which develop into eggs or sperm"https://t.co/vY2VhgGbkM
Anyway, here's a @zefrank video that talks about sharks literally eating each other in the womb.https://t.co/gz51KqH3Kz
I think my GF has E type, and I have F type.https://t.co/YgNk24Phfq
THe most obvious way to tell there may be a chimera phenomena is by Blaschko’s lines. However That isn't the only way that chimerism manifests. You can get double-faced kinds just like the chimera cats. Or just the lower body. https://t.co/kvLAoOQL7I https://t.co/GKqZjtT2NI
Though I could also be C type and just coincidentally happen to not have different colored eye genes. This would explain weird bilaterality in my hearing and vision that seems more extreme than wat I'd expect given lateral development weirdness in autism.
It also catches one one-side numbness thing I was getting in my leg.It might not be chimerism, but the left-right weirdness in leg development tied to may explain why some autoimmune stuff like M.S. and Palsy impact one side more than another.
I'm thinking this patchworks phenomena that shows up in chimerism would imply there are other forms of "Blaschko's lines" that arise simply due to changes in how early cellular differentia manifest in body plan. So it could be chimerism, or just early developmental quirks.