mixed race twins
“I could not believe it at first, I think people will probably laugh when they see my boys and hear they are twins,” Addo-Gerth told RTL. [1]
It was a shock when I realized that my twins were two different colors,” Kylie Hodgson, 19, told London’s Daily Mail. [2]
The odds are one in a million, say doctors, but it can happen with fraternal twins due the genetic soup in our backgrounds. [3]
BERLIN, July 17 (RIA Novosti) - Black and white twins have been born to a mixed-race couple in Germany, the Die Welt newspaper reported on Thursday. [4]
SUN doctor Carol Cooper, author of a book on twins, said there was a two in a million chance of a second set of twins like the Durrant girls. [5]
In 2005, a British couple Kylie Hodgson and Remi Horder, both born to mixed-race parents, had twin girls ‘ one blond, fair skinned and the other dark skinned. [...] The odds one in a million, but it is possible for fraternal twins if the genes combine in a certain way. [6]
Twin boys born in Germany July 11 are turning heads for more than their baby faces: in an unusual genetic occurrence, the brothers were born with dramatically different skin colors. [1]
Alicia and Jasmin Singerl were born in 2006 in Australia, to a mother of Jamaican-English heritage and a German father. [7]
The first baby that was born, Ryan, has light skin and blue eyes. [3]
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. [8]
Then again, sometimes they are ‘ like the twin sons born July 11 to a German couple. [3]
Although occurrences of this nature sometimes occur when a woman conceives twins fathered by two different men, this was a much rarer case in which a single pairing produced twins with distinctly different physical attributes (e.g., skin tone, hair color, eye color) rather than a blending of their parents’ characteristics. [8]
I have two daughters who are light skinned and both me and my husband are dark skinned, him from Nigeria myself USA. [3]
Experts say that such sets of twins are very rare, since most mixed-race individuals carry both dark and light-skinned genes in most eggs and sperm. [7]
Sources:
[1] ABC News: Shades Apart: Twins, One Black, One White
[2] Black and White Twin Sisters
[3] Black and white twins: Brothers from the same mother - The Body Odd …
[4] RIA Novosti - World - Black and white twins born to German mixed-race …
[5] Couple celebrate amazing two-tone family | The Sun |News
[6] Mixed race twins: Different skin colors : Interracial Dating Blog
[7] Twins of Different Races - Twins
[8] snopes.com: Mixed Twins