'I jumped on the DNA testing bandwagon with my dad - it destroyed our family'
dailyrecord.co.ukA man has been left devastated after causing a rift in his family from which they may never recover. The teen decided to jump on the "bandwagon" of DNA testing for a bit of a laugh - but he had no idea of the damage it would cause.After getting some money for his birthday, he bought the kits for himself and his father for £80 and they completed them and sent them off, not thinking too much of it.But the 19-year-old's innocent curiosity exposed a less-than-innocent secret after two decades and left him feeling "like s**t".
Dumbfounded and struggling with what to do next, the young man told his tale on Reddit, The Mirror reports.He wrote: "We got our results back a few days ago and I went into the DNA relatives section to check out my matches.
At the top it listed my dad as only sharing 29.2 per cent DNA with me and being predicted to be a half-brother, which is impossible."This didn't make sense to me since we also shared a paternal haplogroup and we just look so alike, so he was definitely my father."A deeper look into the results showed that he shared 24.6 per cent DNA with his cousin, who was predicted to be his half-sister, which is double the usual amount of 12 per cent.He continued: "I couldn't think of a genetic relationship that would explain what I was seeing and I had doubts in the accuracy of the percentages.
The shared percentages are extremely accurate and highly unlikely to be false."The only realistic explanation for what I was seeing was that my uncle, my cousin's father and my dad's brother, is my father.
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