Skip to comments.
The Mum Made of TWO Women
The Sun [UK] ^
| November 13, 2003
| Brian Flynn
Posted on 11/13/2003 6:24:42 PM PST by quidnunc
New York A MUM has stunned the medical world after tests showed she is made up ofTWO women.
And even more incredibly she is NOT the biological mother of two of the children she conceived and had naturally.
Docs found the woman, named only as Jane, was formed from non-identical twin embryos who fused together in her own mothers womb.
Her blood and some of her organs are made up of her own cells while other parts of her body belong to her unborn sister.
The amazing condition, which baffled doctors for two years, first came to light when Jane was given the bombshell news that two of her three sons did not share her DNA.
That meant they could not be hers even though docs confirmed her husband was their father.
Finally Jane was diagnosed as a chimera, a person made up of two distinct sets of DNA. There have been just 30 known cases, though this is the first described in detail.
Janes bizarre story, reported in the New Scientist journal, began when she needed a kidney transplant.
Doctors in the US city of Boston did blood tests on her three sons to see if they might be donors.
Instead they found two of the boys could not be her own. Dr Margot Kruskall of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston told how the results stumped her team and sparked a huge inquiry.
She said: No-one could figure it out. One suggested Jane had secretly undergone fertility treatment using donated eggs. Another speculated she and her husband had got her sister to conceive with his sperm.
The breakthrough came when tests on Janes brother revealed the sons were all related to her family in some way or other.
They then tested DNA from different parts of Janes body, including the thyroid gland, mouth and hair and were astonished to find they came from two different people.
-snip-
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chimera; health; healthcare; helixmakemineadouble
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 121-122 next last
1
posted on
11/13/2003 6:24:45 PM PST
by
quidnunc
To: quidnunc
Way too freaky.
To: quidnunc
Strange! I never heard of such a thing, but I guess it's possible. Fused twins. So the twin that did not develop lives on in her sister's children?
3
posted on
11/13/2003 6:31:25 PM PST
by
Palladin
(Proud to be a FReeper!)
To: Devil_Anse; Jackie-O; Velveeta; MaggieMay; runningbear; Canadian Outrage
Pinging you to an article about DNA.
4
posted on
11/13/2003 6:31:42 PM PST
by
Lucy Lake
To: quidnunc
Wow. There was a girl in high school that had two viginas. She said she could have sex yet still be a virgin. She would be right. She could save the other one for her wedding night, I guess.
To: msdrby
Check THIS out ping
6
posted on
11/13/2003 6:33:35 PM PST
by
Prof Engineer
(This is NOT the government the Founders intended. ~ Golden Corral supports troops and veterans)
To: concerned about politics
Decisions, decisions, decisions!!
7
posted on
11/13/2003 6:35:57 PM PST
by
JoeSixPack1
(POW/MIA Bring 'em Home, Or Send us Back!! Semper Fi)
To: mhking
![](http://somershoe.com/images/smilies/omg.gif)
Just **** ping
8
posted on
11/13/2003 6:36:41 PM PST
by
4mycountry
(I don't approve of political jokes.... too many of them get elected.)
To: concerned about politics
Hahaha...that's hilarious.
9
posted on
11/13/2003 6:37:28 PM PST
by
July 4th
To: concerned about politics
I hate to think what her PMS would be like.
To: quidnunc
11
posted on
11/13/2003 6:38:24 PM PST
by
krb
(the statement on the other side of this tagline is false)
To: quidnunc
As a Catholic, this makes me wonder about the "ensouled at conception" idea. Does this woman have two souls?
12
posted on
11/13/2003 6:40:20 PM PST
by
Junior
("Your superior intellects are no match for our puny weapons!")
To: PatrickHenry; VadeRetro; RadioAstronomer; Piltdown_Woman
Y'all might find this interesting. P_W, this one might bother you in the same manner it bothers me, which is why I pinged you. You might have insights into this I don't.
13
posted on
11/13/2003 6:43:32 PM PST
by
Junior
("Your superior intellects are no match for our puny weapons!")
To: quidnunc
Uh oh...I'm not sure how, but I'm betting defense attorneys can somehow use this to refute DNA evidence
To: concerned about politics
Do you by any chance know where she kept the second one?
15
posted on
11/13/2003 6:44:27 PM PST
by
John Valentine
(In Seoul, and keeping one eye on the hills to the North...)
To: Junior
If she has two souls, is her husband a bigamist? Can he divorce one of them and not the other? Is the marriage license valid?
Getting serious, I don't see how it's all that different from somebody with a transplanted organ in them.
To: concerned about politics
Did you get posted as "most gullible" in your yearbook? :-)
17
posted on
11/13/2003 6:44:57 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: not_apathetic_anymore
Shhhhh....don't tell Mark Geragos about this. He'll say Scott's evil twin dunnit.
18
posted on
11/13/2003 6:48:02 PM PST
by
Palladin
(Proud to be a FReeper!)
To: Junior
Didn't know this was possible. You'd think a chimerical fetus wouldn't be viable. Immune system attacking body parts, that sort of thing.
To: Capt. Canuck
Except that two children were conceived and melded together into one.
20
posted on
11/13/2003 6:54:11 PM PST
by
Junior
("Your superior intellects are no match for our puny weapons!")
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 121-122 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson