Posted on 12/08/2019 4:33:26 PM PST by Theoria
After a bone marrow transplant, a man with leukemia found that his donor’s DNA traveled to unexpected parts of his body. A crime lab is now studying the case.
Three months after his bone marrow transplant, Chris Long of Reno, Nev., learned that the DNA in his blood had changed. It had all been replaced by the DNA of his donor, a German man he had exchanged just a handful of messages with.
He’d been encouraged to test his blood by a colleague at the Sheriff’s Office, where he worked. She had an inkling this might happen. It’s the goal of the procedure, after all: Weak blood is replaced by healthy blood, and with it, the DNA it contains.
But four years after his lifesaving procedure, it was not only Mr. Long’s blood that was affected. Swabs of his lips and cheeks contained his DNA — but also that of his donor. Even more surprising to Mr. Long and other colleagues at the crime lab, all of the DNA in his semen belonged to his donor. “I thought that it was pretty incredible that I can disappear and someone else can appear,” he said.
Mr. Long had become a chimera, the technical term for the rare person with two sets of DNA. The word takes its name from a fire-breathing creature in Greek mythology composed of lion, goat and serpent parts. Doctors and forensic scientists have long known that certain medical procedures turn people into chimeras, but where exactly a donor’s DNA shows up — beyond blood — has rarely been studied with criminal applications in mind.
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I think there was a CSI (or other show) episode involving a scenario like that.
The actual stem cells that become the sperm and egg nuclei retain the original host DNA so there is no effect on the germ line in reproduction.
Sons I gave birth to are ‘unrelated’ to me
The Telegraph | November 13, 2003 | Roger Highfield
Posted on 11/17/2003 10:20:10 AM PST by NYer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1023494/posts
In Huge Shock, Mitochondrial DNA Can Be Inherited From Fathers
iflscience.com
Posted on 11/26/2018 5:06:59 PM PST by BenLurkin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3708665/posts
I wonder if Bidens hairplugs really came from his own @ss or some other morons @ss halfway around the world?
Like in the recent, well filmed and crazy “new frankenstein” type sci fi of perpetual youth, connected to long lived eels (kid you not) and drinking their “water”.
Only came to see it because of the actor who played Banastre Tarleton in Mel Gibson’s “The Patriot” (and was superior as Marshal Kryuchkov in “The Death of Stalin” .
The movie is like a “teched up” modern version of the “story” of a “doktor” at a bavarian “spa” where no one gets old, but they can’t leave, for their serum “addiction” and role in producing more at some point. Pretty entertaining with enough bourbon on board.
“A Cure for Wellness”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cure_for_Wellness
Be advised:
When you do “23 & Me”
You ARE submitting your DNA to LEO
...And you ARE therefore submitting your FAMILY DNA to LEO.
That’s really weird.
Can the same thing happen in blood transfusions?
I read somewhere, don’t remember where, that a woman carries part of the DNA of every man she has had complete intercourse with.
Since he can’t father a child the issue is a moot point but the article says that the ONLY DNA he has in his semen is that of the German. That means that he would be unable to pass his own DNA if he fathered a child?
Not nice to fool or fool around with Mother Nature.
And so anyone who submits a sample for analysis is violating the privacy rights of most family members. Wonderful.
Uh, no. The article says "semen"... not "sperm". Unless they separated the sample and tested the sperm separately. There is plenty of DNA in the "non-sperm" portion of semen.
If he has a baby, the German Doner will be forced to pay child support based on the DNA evidence.
Dear German guy, I - or I should say you - just fathered a child. We’re suing for child support.
bone marrow contains stem cells that spawn red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. In a transplant, ALL the native bone marrow stems cells are first killed and THEN the donor bone marrow stem cells are introduced.
Most DNA tests are done with buccal swabs, and the DNA thus obtained originates from cells that are shed from the inner linings of the mouth and from white blood cells, thus it is no surprise at all that folks who’ve had bone marrow transplants will show their DNA as belonging to the donor ...
Woah! So if I have a divorce, can I go get a bone marrow transplant so I can trick the other guy to pay the child support?
There’s also a pig monkey in the news.
Stranger than this is people who are chimeras. They have two unique DNA profiles. I forget how it happens, either twins from two different fathers fuse together early on or two sperm cells somehow fertilize the same egg.
Oh brave new world/
That has such people in it!
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