The twins are the second semi-identical pair in the world and the first to be discovered during pregnancy.
Two Queensland twins have made history after becoming the first pair of semi-identical twins in the world to be identified during pregnancy.
Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of New South Wales, Professor Nicholas Fisk made the world-first discovery in 2014. “The issue here was they were of different sex, so when we did DNA studies it showed they weren't identical, but they weren't non-identical, either - they were really halfway in-between,” he told SBS News .
Queensland University of Technology clinical geneticist Doctor Michael Gabbett, who did extensive testing on the twins after Professor Fisk's discovery, said the twins could easily pass for identical in appearance."I recently saw them late last year again and they look like their parents as any children do, I couldn't say if they look more like their mother or their father, but it's quite striking how similar they look to each other,” he told SBS News.
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