I Am Who I Am
Muhl is the first chimerism study that involved a subject that didn’t develop the disorder from an external source. She has a large birthmark spanning her entire torso that splits across the center of her belly button. Either side of her body genetically belongs to someone else, and she has described her skin as feeling like “she is constantly being touched by another person.” Muhl isn’t the only example of this strange occurrence, someone else was recently detected as being a “triple chimera,” meaning they share the DNA of three separate individuals…
Triple Chimera
Karen Keegan is an Ohio woman that needed a kidney transplant in 2002. Doctors were amazed to find that Keegan not only possessed two different sets of DNA after the procedure, but she also had three equal parts of existing DNA within her body. Although it was never proven, it is assumed that Keegan was a birth chimera, and she had taken on the DNA of the person who gave her the kidney as well. Strangely enough, doctors are finding more and more ways in which people can obtain the DNA of someone else…