Get your clone uncontaminated
It’s not unusual for a paternity test to reveal unpleasant truths about the kiddy (and its genitor).
The outcome of a Texas paternity test in May, however, wasn’t only unusual - it was crazy. Here’s the story.
A mother and her fiancĂ© decided to take a paternity test due to the puzzling different facial features of their 11-month-old children (a pair of twins). When confronted with the test’s results they cannot believe the unbelievable truth:Â
The mother has given birth to twins, but they are by different fathers. They have completely different DNA.
One child is the biological son of the mother’s fiancé, the second one is the outcome of an affair with another man she had at the time the twins were conceived. Uuups!
However, is this odd story possible at all?
It is, even though there are only a handful of documented cases of bipaternal twins in the world. The rare phenomenon is known as heteropaternal superfecundation (published for the first time in 1994 in the Journal of Forensic Sciences by a Chinese(!) group).
 The biological mechanism is simple: a woman can release more than one egg during ovulation and if she has sexual intercourse with more than one partner at that time, sperm from different partners can fertilize different eggs.
While there are only a few cases known, studies published by the NIH and other sources suggest that approximately 2 to 8 percent of fraternal twin sets are bi-paternal.
Look out for the unexpected, if you are thinking about a paternity test!
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