DNA Tests for Organ Recipients - Health Street DNA tests confirming identity or immediate family relationships are 99.9% accurate, so when Chicago-based Holly Becker got her results from a consumer ancestry DNA testing company in 2019, she could not imagine why the test identified her as someone else. While consumer DNA tests have been revealed to be a scam when it comes to their ability to reveal the ancestry of a person, even these tests rarely attribute the DNA of one person to another person.
Maternity Test Says Three Kids Do Not Match DNA - Health Street Were a mother's three kids switched at birth? Did she steal them? Or is this a genetic anomaly so rare that few have even heard of it: chimerism. In 2002 when, out of work, pregnant, and separated from her children's father, Lydia Fairchild applied for government aid in Washington state for her three children, she got the shock of her life. DNA tests intended to confirm that she and her boyfriend Jamie Townsend were the biological parents showed that Jamie was indeed the father of the children, but Lydia wasn't their mother.
Chimeras and Paternity Testing - Health Street Washington man was told he is NOT the father, but wait! He didn't know he had absorbed his twin in the womb! Turns out chimeras can confuse DNA tests.
