![]() Also, I forgot to mention–the patient is a girl. Before things could derail into a confusing and seemingly impossible game of “Who’s the Mommy?!,” the doctors did further genetic testing to reach a jarring conclusion: The patient’s DNA was almost exclusively from the father. The parents underwent genetic testing and it was determined in a bizarre twist that only the father had the mutation. Classical genetics states that since the patient had two mutant copies of the gene, both parents must also have the mutation and they both must have passed it onto their child. To begin unraveling the mystery of the relationship between the mutation and the patient’s deafness, the doctors tracked the mutation within the family. Interestingly, though, the mutation in question was not thought to cause deafness. The genetic testing results showed that the patient had two copies of a specific mutation, or alteration, in the genetic code. ![]() Apart from the length and width of the patient’s legs slightly differing, there were no features to mark the child as being particularly out of the ordinary. In the Czech Republic, a deaf nine year old child underwent genetic testing to try to pinpoint the cause of the deafness. But sometimes, a real “mini me” is born with the majority of DNA coming from only one parent. Despite these jokes, it’s generally understood that it takes two to make a baby ( for the most part!! ) and that half the baby’s DNA comes from an egg and half from a sperm. This idea of children being “mini mes” of their biological parents is a common conversation piece, and people often joke that the child is a clone of one parent or the other. The baby, like all newborn babies, looked exactly like a potato. In what I can only assume was a painkiller-induced haze, she wrote, “The baby looks exactly like me!!!”
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