Scientists recruited 32 look-alike pairs and discovered that doppelgängers share more than just appearances.
Somewhere out there, there's probably a person who has your face. And this unrelated look-alike may have more in common with you than appearances, a new study suggests.
These"virtual twins" had never met and were instead recruited thanks to the work of Canadian artist and photographer François Brunelle, who had been collecting pictures of look-alikes since 1999. The researchers published their findings Aug. 23 in the journal Cell Reports.
Taking these 16 highly similar pairs, the researchers then investigated their genomic structure using DNA analysis. The analysis revealed that nine of the 16 pairs were"ultra" look-alikes; they not only appeared closely related, they also shared 19,277 common genetic variations in 3,730 genes. However, these extreme look-alikes were no more likely to share similar epigenetics or microbiomes than pairs that did not look alike.
Perhaps most fascinating of all is that these genetic similarities between unrelated doppelgängers occurred by random chance, implying that the combinations the human genome can take are far from infinite, especially on a planet that is fast approaching a population of 8 billion people.
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