You and your doppelgänger – someone who looks just like you, but is actually a stranger — may actually have similar DNA, according to a new study.
You and your doppelgänger – someone who looks just like you, but is actually a stranger — may actually have similar DNA, according to a new study. Researchers in Spain used photographs by Canadian artist François Brunelle, who has taken pictures of lookalikes around the world since 1999, in the study.
The lookalikes then took a biometric and lifestyle questionnaire and also provided saliva samples for analysis,Photographic examples of unrelated lookalikes from a study published in the journal Cell Reports. / Credit: François Brunelle / CC BY-SA "When we uploaded the DNA sequences of the look-alike to the faces and genomes of the general population, each person in the study matched its corresponding double and was not closer to any other human," said Esteller, who works at the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain.
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