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Old 08-07-2005, 06:41 PM
Ringo Ringo is offline
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Default Re: My craziest thought ever

I was thinking this not long ago too!

My chain of thought was brough on after reading that there was a 1 in 6.5 billion chance of a false positive in DNA crime scene matching. So, I took that to mean that there are 6.5bn different permutations of DNA - is that correct, and if so, what would someone with my identical DNA look like?

Obviously environmental and upbringing would have a lot to do with it, but would this person look like me? There's around 6bn people on earth just now, so it's not unlikely there's a few matches for me, or others.

Thoughts?
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