Vietnam has identified an extremely rare case of bi-paternal twins - twins with different fathers - reported a professor at a DNA testing lab in Hanoi.
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‘DNA testing at a Vietnam lab has revealed an extremely rare case of bi-paternal twins - twins with different fathers but the same mother.’
"Our Center for Genetic Analysis and Technology lab has tested and found a pair of bi-paternal twins," said Le Dinh Luong, president of the Genetic Association of Vietnam. "This is rare not only for Vietnam, but for the world," he said, explaining that the two children had different fathers but the same mother. According to the state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper, the Vietnamese husband requested genetic testing at the Hanoi lab to determine whether he was the biological father of both his wife's twins.
The man's relatives pressured him to take the test because one of the babies looked strikingly different from him and the other child, the report said. The results indicated that the man was related to only one of the babies. Ruling out a hospital mix-up, his wife was found to be the biological mother of both children, Tuoi Tre reported.
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Another rare case of bi-paternal twins was reported in the United States in 2015, when a court ruled that a man was only required to pay child support for one girl in a set of twins after DNA tests proved he was not the father of both.
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