{"id":797,"date":"2007-03-27T10:23:18","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T09:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/03\/27\/more-paranormal-inheritance\/"},"modified":"2007-04-03T07:24:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T06:24:23","slug":"more-paranormal-inheritance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/03\/more-paranormal-inheritance\/","title":{"rendered":"More paranormal inheritance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A funny study in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/0607426104v1\">PNAS<\/a> is broadening our view of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2006\/10\/28\/heritable-mutation-or-not\/\">paranormal inheritance<\/a> by showing germline chimerism in marmosets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nUsing microsatellite DNA markers, we show here that chimerism in marmoset (Callithrix kuhlii) twin &#8230; somatic tissue .. found to be chimeric. Notably, chimerism was demonstrated to be present in germ-line tissues, an event never before documented as naturally occurring in a primate. In fact, we found that chimeric marmosets often transmit sibling alleles acquired in utero to their own offspring.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bad news for all who believe in human paternity testing and 99,999999% probability &#8211; and more strange stories (semi-identical twins discovered &#8211; hermaphrodite reveals previously unknown type of twinning) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/blog\/2007\/03\/semiidentical_twins_discovered.html#85976\">Nature news blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A funny study in PNAS is broadening our view of paranormal inheritance by showing germline chimerism in marmosets: Using microsatellite DNA markers, we show here that chimerism in marmoset (Callithrix kuhlii) twin &#8230; somatic tissue .. found to be chimeric. Notably, chimerism was demonstrated to be present in germ-line tissues, an event never before documented &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/03\/more-paranormal-inheritance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More paranormal inheritance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2945,2952,4,860,862,865,861,859,864,863],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","tag-genetics-biology","tag-note-worthy","tag-population-epidemiology","tag-chimerism","tag-human_paternity","tag-inheritance","tag-marmosets","tag-microsatellite_dna","tag-paranormal","tag-paternity_testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}