So we finally met with the geneticists again and were given yet another shock. It seems that William's microarray revealed additional information. The Trisomy 18 was confirmed and it was once again found in about the same percentage ~25%...but they found more. HAhahaahahaha! Yeah, what more could they have possibly found? What could be worse? Well, I suppose this isn't worse, just more rare. It seems that the 75% of the cells that have the 'normal' number of chromosomes, also happen to have an extra segment on the X chromosome. Um ok... Well, the way it was explained to us is that this leads them to believe that William has not 1, but 2, yes 2 cell lines. The term used was: chimera Essentially, early, very early on in the embryo creation process, 2 fertilized eggs fused together and became 1 egg. William, therefore, has 2 different cell lines, so he could potentially give 2 different DNA samples.
Tom has made many, many jokes about how he could maybe make some serious money in Vegas and get away with it if they had to do DNA testing or some such. Talk about an amazing little man!
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