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January 27th 2006 at 9:35 am in A colleague of mine told me about this chimera syndrome. Basically 1 person ends up with 2 DNA profiles because of something that happened in the embryonic phase.
Fun thing about his is, that basically, everybody can have this affliction. Thing is — they will only know that the moment they discover you have it.
Ain’t that great? This means that it is possible that people are still walking around, presumed innocent because the DNA profile of their hair found at the crime scene didn’t match the DNA in the guys fingernails…
Seems that fingerprints work better.
Anyways — today it is also reported in Dutch media that DNA profiles aren’t that full-proof. DNA can get easily damages by sunlight and can lead to wrong interpretations…
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