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There’s also cases of people who received a transplant who then supposedly have two (or more) different DNAs in their blood.
by amenghra 4y ago
There’s also cases of people who received a transplant who then supposedly have two (or more) different DNAs in their blood.
- throwaway894345 4y agoWow, that's pretty crazy. I never really thought about how transplants imply two different sets of DNA cohabitating in the same body.
- neaden 4y agoI think the relevant transplant is bone marrow, since that produces Red Blood Cells. Here is an article about it:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/us/dna-bone-marrow-transplant-crime-lab.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/us/dna-bone-marrow-transp...
- wahern 4y agoPregnancy presents a similar situation, and fetal microchimerism among parous women is not uncommon. This also includes, supposedly, brain tissue: https://www.science.org/content/article/bearing-sons-can-alter-your-mind https://www.science.org/content/article/bearing-sons-can-alt...
- jacobkg 4y agoA founder I worked with had both a bone marrow transplant and a lung transplant. He named his company 3dna to commemorate having three sets of DNA in his body
- kstrauser 4y agoIt also turns out that chimerism may be a lot more common than we’d thought.