This Man Failed A Paternity Test Due To His Vanished Twin’s DNA

Posted by Jean-Yves on Nov 3, 2015
 

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.

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