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Can two people have same DNA?

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How does DNA testing on TV determine if two people are related?

Humans share 99.9% of our DNA with each other. That means that only 0.1% of your DNA is different from a complete stranger! However, when people are closely related, they share even more of their DNA with each other than the 99.9%. For example, identical twins share all of their DNA with each other. If the DNA of two unrelated people is compared, you would expect that the 0.1% of DNA that is unique to each of them would be very different. However, people who are closely related, for example mother and child, would share about half of that 0.1% of their DNA with each other. In other words, the DNA of a mother and her child is much more the same than the DNA of people who are not related to each other. You also share more DNA with your more distant relatives than with people you aren’t related to, but as relatives get further away in the family tree, you share less and less DNA with them. Paternity testing looks at the DNA of two people (often a father and a child) to determine how much of their DNA is the same and how much is different. If the two people share more DNA with each other than would be expected, the test will be positive: they are highly likely to be father and son. This type of test is over 99.9% accurate and it is extremely unlikely that unrelated people would share enough DNA to cause the test to be falsely positive. DNA paternity testing is so highly accurate because the variations in human DNA are very diverse among people that are not related but are very similar among people who are related. Paternity testing is different than other types of genetic testing in that it is only looking at common variations in the DNA that don’t cause diseases. This means that paternity testing cannot be used to diagnose or predict if someone is going to get a disease.

Learn more about other types of genetic tests here: What is genetic testing?

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Do twins usually live to the same age?

Even twins, identical twins, die at different times.” On average, he said, more than 10 years apart. The likely reason is that life span is determined by such a complex mix of events that there is no accurate predicting for individuals.

nytimes.com - Live Long? Die Young? Answer Isn't Just in Genes - The New York Times

Josephine Tesauro never thought she would live so long. At 92, she is straight backed, firm jawed and vibrantly healthy, living alone in an immaculate brick ranch house high on a hill near McKeesport, a Pittsburgh suburb. She works part time in a hospital gift shop and drives her 1995 white Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera to meetings of her four bridge groups, to church and to the grocery store. She has outlived her husband, who died nine years ago, when he was 84. She has outlived her friends, and she has outlived three of her six brothers. Mrs. Tesauro does, however, have a living sister, an identical twin. But she and her twin are not so identical anymore. Her sister is incontinent, she has had a hip replacement, and she has a degenerative disorder that destroyed most of her vision. She also has dementia. “She just does not comprehend,” Mrs. Tesauro says.

Even researchers who study aging are fascinated by such stories. How could it be that two people with the same genes, growing up in the same family, living all their lives in the same place, could age so differently?

The scientific view of what determines a life span or how a person ages has swung back and forth. First, a couple of decades ago, the emphasis was on environment, eating right, exercising, getting good medical care. Then the view switched to genes, the idea that you either inherit the right combination of genes that will let you eat fatty steaks and smoke cigars and live to be 100 or you do not. And the notion has stuck, so that these days, many people point to an ancestor or two who lived a long life and assume they have a genetic gift for longevity.

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