Paternity testing and other DNA sacramentals …
September 19, 2013 § 5 Comments
… may turn out to be a chimera.
Even three years ago, suggesting that there was widespread genetic variation in a single body would have been met with skepticism, he said. “You would have just run against the wall.”
But a series of recent papers by Dr. Urban and others has demonstrated that those whispers were not just hypothetical. The variation in the genomes found in a single person is too large to be ignored. “We now know it’s there,” Dr. Urban said. “Now we’re mapping this new continent.”
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One woman discovered she was a chimera as late as age 52. In need of a kidney transplant, she was tested so that she might find a match. The results indicated that she was not the mother of two of her three biological children.
Zippy Catholic 
After physics I am the worst at genetics, yet my mind turns again to the theological and the assurance of the geneticists that the Homo Sapiens line could not reduce to two people. Findings like this make me wonder if their confidence is misplaced.
[…] Zippy Catholic linked to a fascinating NYT Science article, DNA Double Take. Take a minute right now and go read the article – I think you’ll find it very interesting. Here are a few excerpts: […]
The man to read on this revolution in genetics is Steve Talbott:
http://natureinstitute.org/txt/st/org/comm/news.htm#aug2213
That’s some great stuff Paul.
It is. I seriously doubt that our materialists are psychologically prepared for the dynamite set to explode under their feet.
I’m rather taken with the terminology, too. Mosaicism is a pretty cool neologism.