Bramblethorn
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/dna-double-take.html?_r=0
"In 2012, Canadian scientists performed autopsies on the brains of 59 women. They found neurons with Y chromosomes in 63 percent of them. The neurons likely developed from cells originating in their sons."
It's long been known that it's possible for a human to have more than one set of DNA, via one mechanism or another. But until recently these cases were only very rarely detected. Now that DNA testing is becoming easier and cheaper, and scientists are going out of their way to look for chimera/mosaic conditions, it looks as if it's very common.
So the next time somebody tells you that God made men with XY chromosomes and women with XX and that's just the way it is...
"In 2012, Canadian scientists performed autopsies on the brains of 59 women. They found neurons with Y chromosomes in 63 percent of them. The neurons likely developed from cells originating in their sons."
It's long been known that it's possible for a human to have more than one set of DNA, via one mechanism or another. But until recently these cases were only very rarely detected. Now that DNA testing is becoming easier and cheaper, and scientists are going out of their way to look for chimera/mosaic conditions, it looks as if it's very common.
So the next time somebody tells you that God made men with XY chromosomes and women with XX and that's just the way it is...
