Before things could derail into a confusing and seemingly impossible game of вЂњWhoвЂ™s the Mommy?!,вЂќ the doctors did further genetic testing to reach a jarring conclusion: The patientвЂ™s DNA was almost exclusively from the father.

The parents underwent genetic testing and it was determined in a bizarre twist that only the father had the mutation. Classical genetics states that since the patient had two mutant copies of the gene, both parents must also have the mutation and they both must have passed it onto their child. To begin unraveling the mystery of the relationship between the mutation and the patientвЂ™s deafness, the doctors tracked the mutation within the family. Interestingly, though, the mutation in question was not thought to cause deafness. The genetic testing results showed that the patient had two copies of a specific mutation, or alteration, in the genetic code. Apart from the length and width of the patientвЂ™s legs slightly differing, there were no features to mark the child as being particularly out of the ordinary. In the Czech Republic, a deaf nine year old child underwent genetic testing to try to pinpoint the cause of the deafness. But sometimes, a real вЂњmini meвЂќ is born with the majority of DNA coming from only one parent. Despite these jokes, itвЂ™s generally understood that it takes two to make a baby ( for the most part!! ) and that half the babyвЂ™s DNA comes from an egg and half from a sperm. This idea of children being вЂњmini mesвЂќ of their biological parents is a common conversation piece, and people often joke that the child is a clone of one parent or the other. The baby, like all newborn babies, looked exactly like a potato. In what I can only assume was a painkiller-induced haze, she wrote, вЂњThe baby looks exactly like me!!!вЂќ Hours after giving birth, my sister sent a picture of her newborn baby to our family group text.

My dna matches my dads but not my moms