The Curious Case of The Man With Two Sets of DNA

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Muhl is the first chimerism study that involved a subject that didn’t develop the disorder from an external source. She has a large birthmark spanning her entire torso that splits across the center of her belly button. Either side of her body genetically belongs to someone else, and she has described her skin as feeling like “she is constantly being touched by another person.” Muhl isn’t the only example of this strange occurrence, someone else was recently detected as being a “triple chimera,” meaning they share the DNA of three separate individuals…

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.