Comments on: Twin DNA Foil Investigators Again

By: Murderer Gets Reduced Sentence Because His Genes Made Him Do It

Murderer Gets Reduced Sentence Because His Genes Made Him Do It — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:58:09 +0000

[...] Blame it on your identical twin [...]

By: TigerTom

TigerTom — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:08:59 +0000

On a practical level, the ‘evil twin’ will eventualy trip himself up.

Crooks aren’t very clever. If they were, they wouldn’t go into a business where both your associates (other crooks, your family) _and_ your opposition (the police) can ruin you with a single ‘phone call.

By: Melanie Swan

Melanie Swan — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:56:31 +0000

Funny – suggests that twins are favorably predisposed to be successful at not getting convicted for crime. At least maybe until we get to proteome and methylation sequencing.

By: Ryan Q

Ryan Q — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:45:20 +0000

We had a case like the paternity one you mentioned. The court ended up using testimony from the woman regarding dates she had last slept with each twin. Then they used some conception date calculations to name a father. If you can’t be convicted of a crime, can you be named a father? It must have been a different attorney!

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By: Dave Morrison

Dave Morrison — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:32:20 +0000

What would King Solomon have done about these twin cases? If it were me, I’d tell the twins that we know one of them did it, so the two of them are going to have to just decide which one is going to jail. And if they can’t come up with a decision, then one will go for the crime, and the other will go for covering up the crime. I know there might be some legal problems with this solution though. Dave

By: Keith Robison

Keith Robison — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:12:59 +0000

Do you have citations for the CNV and methylation differences between twins? The CNVs would be particularly interesting.

Related thought: have copy number variants been demonstrated between two “normal” samples from the same person? (i.e. ignoring cancer and trivial things like antibody rearrangements). Or CNV changes between generations?

By: sandra soleil

sandra soleil — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:03:18 +0000

These are such unusual cases; it just goes to show what a good lawyer can do.