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These reports mostly focused on MCDZ twin pregnancies and the childhood development of the twins; a follow-up into adulthood and the effect on their reproduction has not been reported. In this case study, we report a case of chimerism in opposite-sex MCDZ twins who were naturally conceived and have reached reproductive maturity. We collected oral mucosal, endometrial, and germ cells from the twins and evaluated their chimerism using single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array and droplet digital PCR (ddPCR). The SNP array showed that they had 4,049 non-allele shared loci, and they inherited nearly 50% informative SNP loci from each parent, confirming that they are dizygotic twins. We found that the female twin had a 46, XX (2)\/46, XY (78) karyotype in her peripheral blood. The SNP array confirmed that the female twin and male twin had the same blood haplotype. The ddPCR result showed 92.84 (\u00b1 1.80%) chimerism in her blood. In case of chimerism in her germline, the female twin chose preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy for her blastocysts. Fortunately, the patient only had blood chimerism. 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