Glass
26th October 2015, 08:17 PM
Who can see the issue with this little tale? A very creative way of getting out of an insurance claim but me thinks the tale be impossible.
There was another thread on this forum about this topic. I can't find it but dealt with how a woman will retain the DNA of all her sex partners and combine that DNA into any children that she has.
So a man, who has children with a woman who has either had children already or has unprotected sex, will bear children with mixed DNA.
Anyway, the IVF company has clearly told this guy an amazing whopper. I'm pretty sure this is not possible.
Dad learns that unborn twin 'fathered' his son
What if you learned that your father isn’t your father at all, but rather, your real dad is his unborn twin.
'Sorry sir, you’re not the father of your newborn child—your unborn brother is.'
A 34-year-old man has been told exactly that in the only known case of a paternity test being tricked by a so-called “human chimera,” the Independent reports.
In biology, a chimera is an organism composed of genetically distinct cells.
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.
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 to that of his parents.
Concerned, the husband took an at-home paternity test and learned that his DNA didn’t match his son’s.
Experts believe cells and DNA from the husband's miscarried sibling were absorbed while he was still in the womb.
“You can imagine the parents were pretty upset,” Stanford University geneticist Barry Starr told BuzzFeed.
“They thought the clinic had used the wrong sperm.
“Even geneticists are blown away by this.”
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.
“That was kind of a eureka moment,” said Starr.
“Chimera reports are very rare, but they are real.”
Link to story at the West Australian. (https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/29914885/dad-learns-that-unborn-twin-fathered-his-son/)
There was another thread on this forum about this topic. I can't find it but dealt with how a woman will retain the DNA of all her sex partners and combine that DNA into any children that she has.
So a man, who has children with a woman who has either had children already or has unprotected sex, will bear children with mixed DNA.
Anyway, the IVF company has clearly told this guy an amazing whopper. I'm pretty sure this is not possible.
Dad learns that unborn twin 'fathered' his son
What if you learned that your father isn’t your father at all, but rather, your real dad is his unborn twin.
'Sorry sir, you’re not the father of your newborn child—your unborn brother is.'
A 34-year-old man has been told exactly that in the only known case of a paternity test being tricked by a so-called “human chimera,” the Independent reports.
In biology, a chimera is an organism composed of genetically distinct cells.
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.
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 to that of his parents.
Concerned, the husband took an at-home paternity test and learned that his DNA didn’t match his son’s.
Experts believe cells and DNA from the husband's miscarried sibling were absorbed while he was still in the womb.
“You can imagine the parents were pretty upset,” Stanford University geneticist Barry Starr told BuzzFeed.
“They thought the clinic had used the wrong sperm.
“Even geneticists are blown away by this.”
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.
“That was kind of a eureka moment,” said Starr.
“Chimera reports are very rare, but they are real.”
Link to story at the West Australian. (https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/29914885/dad-learns-that-unborn-twin-fathered-his-son/)