{"id":34715,"date":"2010-12-11T10:13:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T18:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=8396"},"modified":"2010-12-16T03:05:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T11:05:19","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-december-11th-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/11\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-december-11th-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 December 11th, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weird story about twin brothers contesting paternity, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/TheLaw\/LegalCenter\/daddy-paternity-battle-brothers\/story?id=3195632&amp;tqkw=&amp;tqshow=&amp;page=1\">Who&#8217;s Your Daddy? Paternity Battle Between Brothers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;With identical twins, even if you sequenced their whole genome you wouldn&#8217;t find difference\u2026they&#8217;re clones,&#8221; said Dr. Bob Gaensslen, a forensic scientist at Orchid Cellmark labs in Texas. &#8220;There are a few things in science that are cut and dried and this is one of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bob Giles, a paternity testing expert, agrees. &#8220;There is simply no test that explains the difference between two identical twins,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this right? Their sperm should have different distinctive mutations by this time in their lives, right? Which would be passed on to the child.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/gLZt_aH6NoI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird story about twin brothers contesting paternity, Who&#8217;s Your Daddy? Paternity Battle Between Brothers:<br \/>\n&#8220;With identical twins, even if you sequenced their whole genome you wouldn&#8217;t find difference\u2026they&#8217;re clones,&#8221; said Dr. Bob Gaensslen, a forensic scientist at Orchid Cellmark labs in Texas. &#8220;There are a few things in science that are cut and dried and this [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34715"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35058,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34715\/revisions\/35058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}