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Juror, please go back in threads and delete any posts with sarcasm in them. TY.
Are you 100% certain?
The human genome consists of a three-billion-letter code," says Georg Gradl, their next-generation sequencing expert. "If the body is growing, or an embryo is developing, then all the three billion letters have to be copied.
"During this copying process in the body there are 'typos' happening," says Gradl, referring to slight mutations.
In standard DNA tests only a tiny fraction of the code is analysed - enough to differentiate between two average people, but not identical twins.
Gradl and his team took samples from a pair of male twins and looked at the entire three-billion-letter sequence, and they found a few dozen differences in their DNA.
The scientists also tested the son of one of the men, and found he had inherited five of the mutations from his father. Having analysed the results, they are confident that they can now tell any twin from another, and from their children.
After I posted I thought that maybe you might be offended, but that wasn't my intent, so thanks for not being annoyed, pal.Confirmed by not just one but two DNA tests. 🤝
Twin bro and I took the Ancestry test and we show up as "Self/Twin" on each other's profiles.
I suppose my wife could've cheated on me with my twin. Genetically speaking, it would be immaterial - we shoot out the same stuff.