When Does a DNA-Test Result With 99.9% Certainty Not Prove Paternity?
When you and your identical twin brother had sex with the same woman on the same day. I’m surprised that I’m just now hearing about this case, which evidently has been pending in Missouri for four years now. Holly Adams named Raymon Miller as the father of her child, but he contests that, even though he admits he slept with Adams. He knew or suspected, apparently, that his brother Richard might be the real culprit, since as soon as he was asked to pay child support, “he demanded that he and his brother both take a paternity test.” But he had forgotten, apparently, that he and his brother are identical twins. Identical twins are identical, it turns out, because they have the same DNA. “They’re clones,” said a forensic scientist quoted by ABC News. “Even if you sequenced their whole genome, you wouldn’t find [a] difference.” (I wish he hadn’t used the C-word. The panic in Missouri when they find out there are “clones” loose in their state is going to make “War of the Worlds” look like an
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