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RegularJoe@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Doppelgängers Don't Just Look Alike—They Also Share DNA. New research finds genetic and lifestyle similarities between unrelated pairs of “virtual twins”

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Doppelgängers Don't Just Look Alike—They Also Share DNA. New research finds genetic and lifestyle similarities between unrelated pairs of “virtual twins”

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RegularJoe@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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    I don’t have a great answer other than of the 32 studied, these were their stratification:

    Related to population stratification, among the 16 look-alike pairs, 13 were of European ancestry, 1 Hispanic, 1 East Asian, and 1 Central-South Asian.

    Source: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(22)01075-0

    But whether people who look close enough to perform as another, such as the “Chinese Obama” (Xiao Jiguo) I can’t say.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/chinese-president-barack-obama-lookalike-xiao-jiguo-charges-1-500-n444251

    Then there’s Indonesia’s former president, Joko Widodo:

    https://nextshark.com/people-love-indonesias-president-looks-like-barack-obama

    It would be interesting to get the researchers to analyze their DNA.

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      @RegularJoe thank you! This is quite interesting. I’d forgotten about the celebrity look-alikes you mentioned. I’m not surprised the studies aren’t there.

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