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When a DNA Test Shatters Your Identity
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 185" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/dna-test-misattributed-paternity/562928/" target="_blank"><strong>When a DNA Test Shatters Your Identity - The Atlantic</strong></a></p><p></p><p><em>“Each person comes into our group thinking they are a freak.” </em></p><p></p><p>It was AncestryDNA’s customer-service rep who had to break the news to Catherine St Clair.</p><p></p><p>For her part, St Clair thought she was inquiring about a technical glitch. Her brother—the brother who along with three other siblings had gifted her the DNA test for her birthday—wasn’t showing up right in her family tree. It was not a glitch, the woman on the line had to explain gently, if this news can ever land gently: The man St Clair thought of as her brother only shared enough DNA with her to be a half-sibling. In fact, she didn’t match any family members on her father’s side. Her biological father must be someone else.</p><p></p><p>“I looked into a mirror and started crying,” says St Clair, now 56. “I’ve taken for granted my whole life that what I was looking at in the mirror was part my mother and part my dad. And now that half of that person I was looking at in the mirror, I didn’t know who that was.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 185, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/dna-test-misattributed-paternity/562928/'][B]When a DNA Test Shatters Your Identity - The Atlantic[/B][/URL] [I]“Each person comes into our group thinking they are a freak.” [/I] It was AncestryDNA’s customer-service rep who had to break the news to Catherine St Clair. For her part, St Clair thought she was inquiring about a technical glitch. Her brother—the brother who along with three other siblings had gifted her the DNA test for her birthday—wasn’t showing up right in her family tree. It was not a glitch, the woman on the line had to explain gently, if this news can ever land gently: The man St Clair thought of as her brother only shared enough DNA with her to be a half-sibling. In fact, she didn’t match any family members on her father’s side. Her biological father must be someone else. “I looked into a mirror and started crying,” says St Clair, now 56. “I’ve taken for granted my whole life that what I was looking at in the mirror was part my mother and part my dad. And now that half of that person I was looking at in the mirror, I didn’t know who that was.” [/QUOTE]
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