Dad Learns That Unborn Twin 'Fathered' His Son

[Contrary1]

Never heard of anything like this before.

Sorry sir, you’re not the father of your newborn child—your unborn brother is. So a 34-year-old man was told in the only known case of a paternity test being tricked by a so-called “human chimera,” the Independent reports.

It began when a US couple learned that their son, born healthy in 2014 with the aid of a fertility clinic, had a different blood type than his parents. Concerned, the husband took an at-home paternity test and learned that his DNA didn’t match the son’s.

“You can imagine the parents were pretty upset,” Stanford University geneticist Barry Starr tells BuzzFeed. “They thought the clinic had used the wrong sperm.” The clinic assured them there was no mixup, so the couple got a lawyer and approached Starr for help. On Starr’s advice, the father and son took DNA ancestry tests and learned that genetically the dad was his son’s uncle.

In other words, the dad was a “human chimera” who had soaked up the genes of a twin that perished in the womb, then passed them on to the son. Starr saw further evidence of chimerism in the father’s skin (which was two-toned in dark and light strips) and a DNA test of his semen, which identified a slight father-son genetic match of 10%.

More: http://news.yahoo.com/for-yahoo-health-dad-learns-that-unborn-twin-162421331.html

[dorkzilla]

1. WHOA!!!

That may be one of the freakiest things I’ve read...even freakier than the 2 GOP frontrunners!

[daleanime]

4. But not freakier....

then the 3 GOP frontrunners!

[TwilightGardener]

2. Dwight Schrute reabsorbed his twin in the womb.

It gave him the strength of a grown man, and a little baby.

[GeorgeGist]

10. Great

[roguevalley]

11. I read somewhere if you are a leftie, that is what likely happened.

[tabasco]

14. No, we are possessed by a left-handed demon.

Someday we will rule the world and extract our revenge for centuries of mistreatment!

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

26. If we can ever quit running into doors that open the wrong way long enough. nt

[JNelson6563]

29. No, my twin is a lefty

And he didn't absorb me.

[Angry Dragon]

3. strange

[3catwoman3]

5. Strange, but rather...

...cool.

I wonder if all his sperm are similarly affected.

[KamaAina]

6. This sounds like some killer SF!

[Brickbat]

7. Similar to the mother who tested as not the mother of her own children.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/science/Medical_mystery_Woman_gives_birth_to_children_discovers_her_twin_is_actually_the_biological_mother.html

[laundry_queen]

18. Not sure how I missed this

before posting further down, lol.

Can you imagine what that poor mother must have felt when they were accusing her of fraud? Geez. You would be SO confused!

[pansypoo53219]

8. happened to a mother. same situation. genetics is a weird thing.

[laundry_queen]

16. Yep, I was going to mention that, I remember hearing about it a few years ago

Genetics is strange.

I even think there was a crime show - I cannot remember which - where they used the storyline of a rapist that was a chimera. His DNA in his semen was different then the DNA in his mouth so he was never caught until some smart TV cop figured it out.

[pansypoo53219]

9. i noticed a weird thing about my fingerprints. all loops, 1 thumb a whorl.

i checked my parents + brother. all different. but i checked my living 3 grandparents. my paternal grandparent had it on the reverse thumb, he is left handed. my cousin dan is left handed & he had the same prints. i will need to check his daughter. but it seems to have skipped a gen & only the fist born. i just thought it was interesting. if only i could check past & future fingers.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. The anti-choicers believe that a fertilized egg = "a baby" so either this guy is a murderer,

Or he counts as two people and should be allowed to vote twice.

[dmr]

21. Woke the dog laughing.

Kim Davis' lawyers should get right on it.

What a cliffhanger!

[A Little Weird]

13. The child can call him Uncle Daddy

What an odd story!

[Ghost in the Machine]

23. Don't some already do that in parts of Alabama & West Virginia???

I kid, I kid!!... somewhat. We also have some inbreeding here in Tennessee, and I knew a brother & sister who were living as man and wife, with children, in Georgia when I lived there... but they were originally from Alabama.

Peace,

Ghost

[Tree-Hugger]

15. Whoa!

That is so cool. And freaky. And cool.

[RiffRandell]

17. Twisted.

I would think this would in The Weekly World News, not for realz.

[rug]

19. "Fluke, I am your father."

[Contrary1]

20. Congratulations rug !!!

Brilliant.

You are the winner of today's internet! Please send $1,000 US to Contrary1 to let the prize committee know you are a real person, and we will send you your grand prize.

[rug]

25. Woohoo!

Send me your banking info and I'll send the check post haste!

[MisterP]

22. but technically he's evenly mixed: it's just that the blood and the sperm bits don't line up

it's not him and a twin he resorbed, he's equally BOTH fetuses

[mmonk]

28. Starting to sound like theoretical physics instead of biology.

[MisterP]

31. quantum babyposition?

[mmonk]

32. .

[Snobblevitch]

24. This headline is quite misleading.

The man was born with two sets of DNA. That certainly does not mean that either portions if his SNA does not belong to him.

This is interesting in a biological aspect, but ridiculous as a headline.

[tencats]

27. Rember Lydia Fairchild 2006

Lydia Fairchild was a proud mother who faced the most unusual of challenges. She had to fight in court to prove the children born from her body were her own.

"I knew that I carried them, and I knew that I delivered them. There was no doubt in my mind," Fairchild said.

Fairchild's fight for her kids began when she was 26-years-old, unemployed and applying for public assistance in Washington state. Everyone in her family had to be tested to prove they were all related.

The Department of Social Services called Fairchild and told her to come in immediately. What Fairchild thought was a routine meeting with a social worker turned into an interrogation. The proud mother was suddenly a criminal suspect.

There Must Be an Explanation

"As I sat down, they came up and shut the door, and they just went back and just started drilling me with questions like, 'Who are you?'" Fairchild said.

The DNA test results challenged everything she knew about her family. Yes, her boyfriend was the father of the children, and, yes, they were all related, according to the DNA, except for Fairchild. She was told she wasn't the mother.

Fairchild was certain a mistake must have been made, but she recalled a social worker saying to her, "Nope. DNA is 100 percent foolproof and it doesn't lie."

She's Her Own Twin
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/shes-twin/story?id=2315693

[ohheckyeah]

30. This is bizarre, but

it was a possibility brought up tp me after my back surgery. A piece of bone was found in my back that the docs couldn't find a place of origin for.

No DNA tests were done, probably because I have no children. It did freak me out a bit.