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my great grandmother had twins, i'm not sure if they were fraternal or identical, i think fraternal. my mum says that twins skip a generation so that would mean that my mum or her sisters should of had twins, right? but they didnt! could that mean that i could have them instead? could it skip 2 generations? and if so would the twins be fraternal or identical? which is hereditery? and if the father has history of twins either fraternal or identical does it help? thanks!!
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I don't know about the "skipping generation" theory. It either runs in the family or it doesn't. It comes from the mother's side and the hereditary twins are the fraternal twins. Since no one has had twins since your great grandmother and you are not sure which type they were and nobody has had a set since, I don't know if your chances would be very high. The only thing I can tell you is what the facts of chances are. You have about .50% chance of having identicals and about a 3% chance of having fraternals. HTH.
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actually twins Do NOT skip generations. Sometimes when it is on your father's side it seems as if skipped because your dad carries the gene but he can not influence your mother's body to drop more than one egg, making it look like it skipped. BUT he can pa__s the gene to do so. The farther removed it gets on the family tree the less likely it will happen.
So....you dh can not cause you to get pg with twins becasue he can't influence how eggs your will drop.
fraternal twinning is hereditary only on your side of the family. Id twinning well the jury is still out....some say it will influence your chances other say it won't. There isn't enough evidence the prove that the enzyme the man carries causes id twinning as it has stayed constant in the population of 1 in 250 births.
Spontanoues twinning happens 1 in 89 pregnancies.
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thanks! i am just curious to know! i think they were fraternal though! identical twins happen spontaneously, yeh? wot causes the egg to split???
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They believe it could be something in the man's sperm that the egg has to be receptive to. The chances of this is very slim.
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