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Man Failed A Paternity Test Due To His Vanished Twin’s DNA
http://www.buzzfeed.com/danvergano/failed-paternity-test-vanished-twin
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"How can a man who was never born father a son? When the ghost of his genes lives on in the DNA of his brother, genetics researchers have found.
A 34-year-old U.S. man is the first ever reported case of a paternity test fooled by a human “chimera” — someone with extra genes absorbed from a nascent twin lost in early pregnancy.
About one-in-eight single childbirths are thought to have started as multiple pregnancies. Cells from these miscarried siblings are sometimes absorbed in the womb by a surviving twin, but are only rarely discovered by surprises such as the paternity test puzzle.
“Even geneticists are blown away by this,” Barry Starr, a geneticist at Stanford University, told BuzzFeed News."
http://www.buzzfeed.com/danvergano/failed-paternity-test-vanished-twin
more at link above
"How can a man who was never born father a son? When the ghost of his genes lives on in the DNA of his brother, genetics researchers have found.
A 34-year-old U.S. man is the first ever reported case of a paternity test fooled by a human “chimera” — someone with extra genes absorbed from a nascent twin lost in early pregnancy.
About one-in-eight single childbirths are thought to have started as multiple pregnancies. Cells from these miscarried siblings are sometimes absorbed in the womb by a surviving twin, but are only rarely discovered by surprises such as the paternity test puzzle.
“Even geneticists are blown away by this,” Barry Starr, a geneticist at Stanford University, told BuzzFeed News."