Have you ever met a 'genetic freak'?
By breepeace
@breepeace (3014)
Canada
July 10, 2007 5:45pm CST
One of my close friends, Josh, is 100% Native American.. not that you can tell from his caucasian features, blonde hair and blue eyes, but he is. He has the paternity results, and his mom has the birth records to prove it. He has no caucasian ancestors in a 5 generation family tree.
My friend had a roommate years ago who I always thought was black or South American. She has dark skin, coarse curly black hair, and dark brown eyes. My friend tells me now her parents are blonde haired, blue eyed, and her biological brother is the same. It's the same story. She had the blood work done to prove she wasn't adopted or switched at birth.
I suppose this could happen. I'm not a geneticist, so I can't explain how, but I wonder if other people know more 'miracles of nature'?
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@Evida_syd (16)
• Colombia
11 Jul 07
Well not to be sarcastic, they say that only the mother knows why her children have certain genetic features, that aren't appearent in both her and her husband.
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@breepeace (3014)
• Canada
11 Jul 07
I'm not sure if you're implying that their father might not be the person their mother told them is their father, but in Josh's case, his father (who also doubted paternity) had a paternity test done, so yes, his father was who his mother said he was.
I suppose, in some cases, this might be truth though.
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@myfanwy65 (1030)
• United States
10 Jul 07
It could be recessive genes carried for many generations that are just now coming out because both parents had the same recessives. It's weird, but not impossible.
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@breepeace (3014)
• Canada
10 Jul 07
I thought about that, I know that recessive genes in dogs only crop up in the first 4 generations, and after that unless you linebreed or inbreed back to maintain those recessive traits, you lose them. I don't know if it's the same thing in people, but I do know that in Josh's case, there were at least 5 full generations that were typically native in appearance.
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@dnatureofdtrain (5273)
• Janesville, Wisconsin
11 Jul 07
I have a cat who is a hermphrodite.. Yes, a little boy cat, who had kittens.. It has totally put the family in shock to learn out little Male cat had kittens lol. But I love my little kitty His name is Sterling.. He hisses at you if you call him a She lol.
- DNatureofDTrain
@dnatureofdtrain (5273)
• Janesville, Wisconsin
11 Jul 07
oh and here is an article about a Calf.. who is one...
and has 6 legs.. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OTOHPG1&show_article=1
- DNatureofDTrain
@rarrimalion (674)
• United States
11 Jul 07
yea i'm sure i have. Everyone has something a little different about them according to their genetics, even if it's not so dramatic as that. For example, my bf has light brown hair (white-blonf hair as a kid) and blue eyes... his parents both have dark brown hair and eyes. Neither of my parents have a widow's peak and genetically that means i shouldnt... but i do.
More dramatically, i knew siblings once who were mixed-1 parent was black, 1 was white, and the one sibling looked black and the other looked like a tanned white person-they had like blond hair and everything lol
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@carolscash (9492)
• United States
10 Jul 07
No, I don't know of any stories like this. However, it is odd that things like this happen. I would hate to think that I would want to have a test done to see if I was switched at birth,but I guess you would wonder in those kinds of cases. I guess they were just to look different!
@Juanamomof5 (429)
• United States
10 Jul 07
Yes, a friends of my parents who were both blonde with green eyes, had a baby. The husband was away when she delivered a dark hair, dark skinned child. Come to find out when they did their family history about five generation he had a black relative. So it does happen like illness, other family traits can skip upto five generations.
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