[mikegi]

Two separate genetic lines require two separate fertilized eggs which would result in two separate gestational sacs -> normal non-identical twins. In this woman's case, she and her twin must have had their blastocysts merge shortly after hatching for such a complete mixture of lines.

[sweetliberty]

"Five years ago doctors in Edinburgh discovered a test-tube chimera who looked like a boy but had female reproductive organs. Other chimeras have shown outward signs such as eyes of different colours."

Wonder if this is what accounts for hermaphrodites.

[wai-ming]

Jane was given the bombshell news that two of her three sons did not share her DNA.

That's nothing. Men have been fathering children that "don't share their DNA" for ages!

[maxwell]

selfping

[Frapster]

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 mother’s 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.

I think therefore I am. This is the second time I've seen this article and it raises many interesting questions from a theological standpoint. Over the weeks (days?) since I first saw this article I have reached the following conclusions to my own personal satisfaction: The children are most certainly her biological children - regardless of the findings of the dna tests these children were spawned from organs within her own body. The organs are her organs just as much as a transplant patient can lay claim to the organ now housed in their body. And most importantly of all she is who she is regardless of the process by which she came to being.