It's not Paternity Fraud - It's a genetic throwback disorder

I know we have some pretty well-educated readers out there, so if you have a medical background and can speak intelligently on the topic, please chime in. Does such a rare kind of disorder actually exist or is it a faux diagnosis designed to reduce the divorce rate?

Of course in the case in question, those with the DNA needed to come to a definite conclusion are probably no longer accessible (ie, dead and dissolved), but even if they are, I don't suppose it matters in this particular case. There are other big issues that this kind of story takes up, too-- race prejudice, social justice (in other ways other than paternity fraud), etc. So it is easy to take this story out of scope of the MRA concerns around paternity fraud. The first question arising from this story IMO is, "Does such a disorder exist and how frequently, if it does, is it likely to express itself?"

Firstly, while i'm not a doctor at all, i have heard of this disease form several different places in the past.

Also, probably the most notable for me, was someone a few houses down from me who had the exact same thing happen. His skin isn't quite as dark as the girl in this story, but he definitely doesn't look white, and both his parents do.

I have no idea about how frequent it is, but it definitely can happen. I'm not sure this is really an MRA issue.

(this part is stolen from an explanation somewhere else)

http://afrigeneas.com/forum/index.cgi?noframes;read=57943

RACE MIXING AND THE “THROWBACK” GENE

In a practical example, if a pure Black breeds with a pure White, the offspring might emerges with a new "mutant" recessive allele (a), being heterozygous (i.e., along with a more dominant one, represented by "Ab").

If that mixed race individual then marries back into the White genotype pool, statistically, only half that person’s progeny will carry (a), and only half of the next generation.

A mutant allele may simply disappear or it may propagate out through many generations before it reappears through mixing with another individual who also carries that same allele. Only then will the phenotype appear – this is known popularly known as the “throwback gene.”

It may take many generations before a particular combination of alleles (mutant or otherwise) appears. Such a “throwback” will increase the (aa) population locally, and even more when (aa) males start mating with (aa) females, making it possible for an (aa) type to expand in numbers.

http://www.geocities.com/kempcountrymen/sandralaing.htm

.. but paternity fraud is. The question here is whether or not, barring DNA evidence to clear the matter up, an ethnic Caucasian or sub-Saharan black African woman who has a mate of the same ethnic group can, with him, produce a child that appears to be of another ethnic group, or is it "prima facie" evidence of infidelity if she does? That's the issue. The article is saying that it isn't. I am just trying to see if that can be the case, ie, is the article full of it or not when it comes to its scientific assertions.

just look at michael jackson.

he's black but now he's white (sort of).

Jackson has a rare type of skin disease. It came about long after he was born and doesn't figure into any questions re his paternity he may or may not have.

....then I have some inexpensive oceanfront property in Arizona I would like to interest you in. The old girl had a secret hankerin' for chocolate. Maternity fraud pure and simple.

but i don't buy that skin thing, and this smells like paternity fraud.

and michael didn't have any nose surgery either.
i believe michael a lot more about not molesting those boys
than i do about his excuses for his personal appearance.

and when you lose your professional ethics,
fraud is just another day at the office (commonplace).

maybe soon we will be able to do a genetic scan using
a home device. will people try to track down their real fathers then?

lotsa people walking around unwittingly taking lies for the truth.
if feminists are true to form they should start trying to stop
random widespread dna testing. i believe that's the real reason
babies aren't tested now, to everyone but women's harm, as usual.

Oh, I do believe this is a clear-cut case of paternity fraud. I don't believe the recessive gene explanation at all. My question was this: is there actually such a condition that can explain what had happened, even if it's a 1:10,000,000 chance? The answer may indeed be "yes" but in this particular case I don't believe it. It's a matter of odds/likelihood, that's all. If this had happened and the population in question were exclusively caucasian, then that is a far more likely explanation. But such was not the case here. Using Occam's Razor, the paternity fraud explanation is much more likely.

The question of the injustice of the S. African apartheid system is an entirely different matter. Should the girl have been segregated from other students because she was believed to be a black person? No, of course not. The question here from the MRA point of view is the paternity fraud matter. The social injustice question around apartheid is a different discussion.

Leuk, you seem awfully quick to jump to conclusions.

The plain and simple truth is we don't know whether this was paternity fraud or a rare genetic throwback situation.

And you have absolutely nothing to say that it was one over the other.

To say unequivacally that it was, is just as foolish as to state that it wasn't. We just don't know.

And to whomever quoted occam's razor, they should know that it says the simplest explanation is USUALLY the most likely, not always.

We're talking about a rare condition here. That's why it's a story in a newspaper.

manonthestreet

The point is we all know that the courts don't need proof to saddle a man (any man) with paternity payments. Indeed they try to avoid proof. As far as men are concerned courts are just sentencing chambers. Just remember all the posts that tell you this an this forum.