Chimera Twins Story · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Hemos on Monday August 11, 2003 @02:54AM from the learn-more-about-it dept.

skelley writes "Below is an audio link on this morning's story on NPR about Chimera twins, or people with two sets of DNA. It turns out that every once in a while a set of fraternal twin eggs merge into one embryo. The resulting person has two sets of DNA. The story says it is possible for a Chimera to have different sets of DNA in different body parts. This can cause complication for body identification, DNA typing for organ transplants, crime investigation, etc. Researchers have no idea how common this is, but suppose that it is a reasonable percentage of all fraternal twin pregnancies, which would mean millions worldwide. No text version. NPR often doesn't publish one. "

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Re:Heehee by Ratphace · 2003-08-11 03:06 · Score: 1, Redundant

No text version. NPR often doesn't publish one.

Yeah, well, after a high quality ./ hammering of their site, they might consider a lower bandwidth text version *cackle*
Inevitable by pjdoland · 2003-08-11 03:08 · Score: 0, Redundant

This is a CSI episode waiting to happen.

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