** Forum Nasional Indonesia PPI India Mailing List ** ** Untuk bergabung dg Milis Nasional kunjungi: ** Situs Milis: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ ** ** Beasiswa dalam negeri dan luar negeri S1 S2 S3 dan post-doctoral scholarship, kunjungi http://informasi-beasiswa.blogspot.com ** >> Unbelievable! >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Subject: They are really TWIN! >> >> >> >> >> >> A mixed-race British mom gave birth to twins recently - one of each. >> No, not a boy and a girl. Two girls - one black, the other white. The >> odds of such a birth are about a million to one, experts said. >> >> "It was a shock when I realized that my twins were two different >> colors," Kylie Hodgson, 19, told London's Daily Mail. "But it doesn't >> matter to us - they are just our two gorgeous little girls." >> >> Hodgson and her partner, Remi Horder, 17, were both born to mixed-race >> parents. Little Kian and Remee share a love of apples and the >> Teletubbies, their proud mom says. Fertility experts speculate that a >> sperm containing all-white genes fused with an egg with all-white genes, >> and a sperm with all-black genes fused with an all-black gene egg to >> produce the fraternal twins. >> >> >> >> >> >> Photographs (c) Gary Roberts >> >> >> >> The photographs and story excerpted above appeared in a variety of UK >> newspapers in February 2006. As described, in April 2005 Kylie Hodgson >> gave birth by caesarean section to fraternal twin girls, one black and >> one white. Kylie and her partner, Remi Horder, are of mixed race >> themselves, both having been born to white mothers and black fathers. >> Their twin girls - Kian and Remee - were both born with blue eyes, with >> Remee having blonde hair and Kian having black hair and somewhat darker >> skin than her sister. Since then, Remee's skin tone has become lighter, >> while Kian's has become darker and her eyes have turned brown. >> >> Geneticists opined that the odds of such a coupling's producing >> mixed-race fraternal twins were about a million to one: >> >> Skin colour is believed to be determined by up to seven different >> genes working together. >> If a woman is of mixed race, her eggs will usually contain a mixture >> of genes coding for both black and white skin. >> Similarly, a man of mixed race will have a variety of different genes >> in his sperm. When these eggs and sperm come together, they will create >> a baby of mixed race. >> But, very occasionally, the egg or sperm might contain genes coding >> for one skin colour. If both the egg and sperm contain all white genes, >> the baby will be white. And if both contain just the versions necessary >> for black skin, the baby will be black. >> For a mixed-race couple, the odds of either of these scenarios is >> around 100 to one. But both scenarios can occur at the same time if the >> woman conceives non-identical twins, another 100 to one chance. >> This involves two eggs being fertilised by two sperm at the same time, >> which also has odds of around 100 to one. >> If a sperm containing all-white genes fuses with a similar egg and a >> sperm coding for purely black skin fuses with a similar egg, two babies >> of dramatically different colours will be born. >> The odds of this happening are 100 x 100 x 100 - a million to one.
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