In December 2017 I shared a tale of two friends – septuagenarians
Alan Robinson and Walter Macfarlane – who discovered they're actually
half-brothers. At the time I thought their situation was pretty unlikely; first
that brothers could be separated without any knowledge of one another, second that they should somehow find each other and become buddies, and third that they discover they're siblings.
Then last week I happened upon a very similar story. Tricenarian (thirtysomething)
Walt Gordy was diagnosed with lymphoma five years ago. He underwent treatment
and nine months later was declared cancer free. He began to wonder if he was at
risk for other health problems, so he turned to genetic testing service
23AndMe. That’s when Walt found out his best friend, Mark Tolson was also his
half-brother. They’d both grown up as only children wishing for siblings. I
suppose as recreational genomics becomes more popular we can expect to see more
stories like this.
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