<p>Amazing! & not to mention, rare!</p>
<p>[Black</a> and white twins: Brothers from the same mother - The Body Odd - msnbc.com](<a href=“http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/17/1205061.aspx?GT1=43001]Black”>http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/17/1205061.aspx?GT1=43001)</p>
<p>[Black</a> and White Twins (Photos) - Netlore Archive](<a href=“http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_black_and_white_twins.htm]Black”>Humor & Whimsy)</p>
<p>Each parent has 2 sets of genes for skin color.</p>
<p>Obviously each parent had a set of ‘white’ genes for skin color (I think there are 8 genes coding for skin color so far found) and the paler baby got all those. For their second set of genes, the parents had some combo of white to ‘dark’ genes for skin color and the paler baby managed to inherit all those white genes.<br>
The other baby snagged about 3 or so ‘dark’ genes. The ‘dark’ genes which code for melanin trump the ‘white’ genes that the darker baby inherited, so he expressed darker skin.</p>
<p>Isn’t genetics fascinating!</p>
<p>It sure is and can become scary when it tweaks to the point of disabling a child.</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see whether the skin of the “white” twin darkens as he gets older, something that typically happens with black babies.</p>
<p>I wondered about that too, Northstarmom!</p>
<p>Northstarmom, it actually did happen in a case but both babies changed opposite colors. </p>
<p>“In 2006, Kerry Richardson, who is of Nigerian and English descent, and her partner, who is white, gave birth to twins who were both born light-skinned. But as they got older, one got darker while the other got lighter.”</p>
<p>I bet micheal jackson is jumping with joy telling the whole world : I told u guys…It is possible without surgery</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>perhaps, but kinda hard to explain why your nose fell off, unless he really loves coke. and not the kind he’d use cans to put jesus juice in…</p>
<p>Rare, but makes perfect sense if you know anything about genetics.</p>
<p>I don’t know if you guys watch big brother, but in the new season the black woman, Libra, she has twins one white one black. They were adorable.</p>
<p>On watch channel?</p>
<p>CBS, but the kids aren’t on the show.</p>
<p>jsmall- they showed the babies on the first episode when everyone moved in.</p>
<p>[Libra:</a> Big Brother on CBS](<a href=“CBS Shows - Popular Primetime, Daytime, Late Night & Classics”>http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_brother/bio/libra_10/bio.php)</p>
<p>there is a link to her biography on the show.</p>
<p>So…which one do you think will cut himself and which one will play basketball?</p>
<p>nice! the white one’s gunna get them guys.</p>