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Myra Wysinger
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Twins Layton (right) and Kaydon Richardson (left) from Middlesbrough, are officially one in a million after one was born black and the other one white.
By The Associated Press - October 27, 2006

British twins have different skin color

In a rare occurrence, boys inherited different genetic codes from mother.

LONDON - A pair of British twin boys has been born with different skin color, a rare genetic occurrence according to experts.

In an interview with Britain's Sky News program, mother Kerry Richardson said that the boys were both born white but as they've gotten older one of the boys got darker and the other lighter.

Today, she says, the twins attract attention wherever they go.

Richardson is of mixed race, with Nigerian and English heritage, while the father is white.

A genetics expert at Oxford University says such births are rare, as the genes that cause skin color normally mix together. In this case, he says, it appears the genes for skin color didn't combine for some reason and the boys may have inherited different genetic codes from their mother.

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Supercar
Member # 6477
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Ah, another of those rare instances. Here's a cache version of earlier discussion on a similar subject, but the direct link for it on Egyptsearch appears to no longer exist: Black and white twins

From the link...

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