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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: corbe on December 08, 2019, 11:05:42 pm
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Nevada man's DNA changes after bone marrow transplant and is replaced by that of his German donor following treatment for leukemia
By Lauren Fruen For Dailymail.com
Published: 12:43 EST, 8 December 2019 | Updated: 13:05 EST
•Chris Long, from Reno, found that both his blood and semen had changed following treatment for acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes
•He said it's 'pretty incredible that I can disappear and someone else can appear'
•Now his police colleagues are looking into how it might affect forensic work
•'We were kind of shocked that Chris was no longer present at all', an expert said
•Long found that all the DNA in his blood had changed months after his operation
•Four years later parts of his lips and cheeks also contained the DNA of his donor
•The change has made him a chimera, which means he has two sets of DNA
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7769433/Nevada-mans-DNA-changes-bone-marrow-transplant-replaced-German-donor.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7769433/Nevada-mans-DNA-changes-bone-marrow-transplant-replaced-German-donor.html)
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Nearly 23,000 bone marrow or umbilical cord blood transplants were performed in the United States in 2017.
That's just in the United States for one year, and in all of these thousands of transplants this phenomenon hasn't been seen before, hasn't been documented? Sounds a little fishy to me, but hey it was in a British paper so it must be true..........right?
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My family is happy that so many transplants can be done.
Unfortunately in 1990 when my younger brother needed one, there was no suitable matched doner. He died at age 37 from Leukemia.
And a few years later Rod Carew's teen daughter, also died with no doner match.
Organ and marrow transplants are saving livers.
Hurray for science.