{"id":955,"date":"2014-08-28T22:29:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T22:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=955"},"modified":"2014-08-28T22:29:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T22:29:18","slug":"quadruplets-of-different-colors-amaze-geneticians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"QUADRUPLETS OF DIFFERENT COLORS AMAZE GENETICIANS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0The case of four\u00a01-year old\u00a0brothers from Florida, who were born from the same pregnancy but of four different colors, continues to mystify the\u00a0scientists who have been studying the boys. The sons of single mother Sheila Wilkinson, appear to have taken all the traits of only one race each, and\u00a0they all\u00a0have a different skin color. Although this kind of phenomenon has been observed in the past\u00a0with twins on some very rare occasions, it is the first case of\u00a0multicolored quadruplets\u00a0ever\u00a0known to have existed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 23-year old mother got pregnant during the 2012 Springbreak\u00a0while partying in Louisiana. She\u00a0admits she had multiple sexual partners over a short time period at and that she\u00a0is not certain who the father of her children is. The boys were born on December 7th at the Tampa General Hospital, instantly attracting a lot of attention from the\u00a0 world\u2019s media and also\u00a0from the scientific community. They are named Jason, Timothy, Anthony and William.<\/p>\n

The geneticians who have\u00a0studied the boys\u2019 case, believe that they could be the offspring of four different fathers, a phenomenon called heteropaternal superfecundation. Fraternal (dizygotic) twins are the result of hyperovulation, which means\u00a0the release of multiple eggs in a single cycle. Superfecundation describes a situation where the eggs are fertilized by sperm from separate incidences of sexual intercourse. In a case where a woman has sex with different partners, the twins could have different fathers.<\/p>\n

In another case well documented case of multicolored twins, one parent was white and one was black, and \u2013 as can happen with any fraternal twins \u2013 Lauren took after her mother, Alison Spooner, while Hayleigh took after her father, Dean Durrant. What makes this family so remarkable is that this happened not once but twice, seven years apart. British researchers calculated that the odds of two sets of \u201cblack and white twins\u201d in the same family are about 2 in a million.\"quadruplets\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Courtesy: New World Order Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0The case of four\u00a01-year old\u00a0brothers from Florida, who were born from the same pregnancy but of four different colors, continues to mystify the\u00a0scientists who have been studying the boys. The sons of single mother Sheila Wilkinson, appear to have taken all the traits of only one race each, and\u00a0they all\u00a0have a different skin color. Although […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strange-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/quadruplets.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-fp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}