blackram
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Not sure what the implications of this is. But it looks like you girls benefit from having us guys in your brains. :writing:
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Microchimerism is the “intermingling” of small numbers of cells or portions of DNA in a person or animal from a genetically different individual.
In this case, the male DNA found in women’s brains most likely came from cells from a pregnancy with a baby boy.
But women can acquire male DNA without ever having a son. In women without boys, male DNA can come from sharing her mother’s womb with a male twin, from a non-irradiated blood transfusion and possibly even from an older sibling.
During pregnancy, cells are exchanged in both directions, from mother to fetus, and fetus to mother. After birth, women retain a small number of fetal cells. Although it hasn’t yet been reported, the cells from an earlier pregnancy might be passed along with the maternal cells that reach a fetus in a later pregnancy.