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Woman’s transplanted ‘man hands’ become lighter and more feminine

A young woman in India who lost both of her hands in a bus accident received limbs from a darker-skinned male donor. Years later, the skin of her transplanted hands has lightened.

After her accident in 2016, 18-year-old Shreya Siddanagowder’s arms were amputated below the

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