The Not-So-Legendary Chimera
`Imagine if you discovered one day that two of your three children were genetically not yours. Recriminations, marital troubles, perhaps a divorce, right? Now add a twist. What if you were these children�s mother? Suddenly the question becomes not �Who?� but rather �Huh?�
Yet that�s what happened to �Jane�. At the age of 52 when her children were full-grown, she and her children underwent genetic testing for a possible kidney transplant. Completely unexpectedly, two of her three children tested as genetically not hers. A mix-up of babies was ruled out, and she and her husband had not undergone in vitro fertilization, so it was absolute that her children were hers.
Jane, it turns out, is a human Chimera.’
