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That's just the article's handwaving. The case report actually says:

> During follow-up at 3 years of age, routine ovarian surveillance showed Twin 2 to have gonadal dysgenesis, and prophylactic oophorectomy was performed.




Yea, this is highly clarifying. The OP article makes it sound like they decided to render Twin 2 sterile because of a risk of cancer inferred from some theorizing about the genetics of a these new sorts of twins. In fact, it sounds like Twin 2 was already sterile.

> Streak gonads are the defective development of the gonads in an embryo, with reproductive tissue replaced with functionless, fibrous tissue, termed streak gonads. [It is] a form of aplasia, resulting in hormonal failure that manifests as sexual infantism and infertility, with no initiation of puberty and secondary sex characteristics.




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