She's Her Own Twin - ABC News
mercredi 3 septembre 2014 à 17:28Sensini42, le 03/09/2014 à 17:28
L'adn des enfants et de la mère prouve que ce ne sont pas ses enfants. Mais en fait, si.
« "In her blood, she was one person, but in other tissues, she had evidence of being a fusion of two individuals"
It's a rare condition called chimerism, with only 30 documented cases worldwide.
A chimera is an organism with at least two genetically distinct types of cells -- or, in other words, someone meant to be a twin. But while in the mother's womb, two fertilized eggs fuse, becoming one fetus that carries two distinct genetic codes -- two separate strands of DNA.
The twin is invisible, but for chimeras the twin lives microscopically inside the body as DNA.»
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L'adn des enfants et de la mère prouve que ce ne sont pas ses enfants. Mais en fait, si.
« "In her blood, she was one person, but in other tissues, she had evidence of being a fusion of two individuals"
It's a rare condition called chimerism, with only 30 documented cases worldwide.
A chimera is an organism with at least two genetically distinct types of cells -- or, in other words, someone meant to be a twin. But while in the mother's womb, two fertilized eggs fuse, becoming one fetus that carries two distinct genetic codes -- two separate strands of DNA.
The twin is invisible, but for chimeras the twin lives microscopically inside the body as DNA.»
Via http://fr.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2f97vr/til_that_a_woman_faced_fraud_charges_after_a_dna/