Woman finds unexpected family intrusion after DNA study

Katy Canning was born in Syracuse, New York, and became the eldest of three brothers, although unlike the other two she never looked much like her parents. "Mom said, growing up, that I was partly Native and Native American," she told CBS. This morning.

But when he did DNA business reviewhe knew it was not like that. And that, really He has four other brothers. Their ancestors are not native but Jamaicans, and the father who raised her is not the biological. "It's so, so crazy," he told the program.

His father was the musician Baron Duncan, also from Syracuse, said the law student at New York Law School. When he acknowledged the facts, the mother says ironically: "It was the 80s!".

The family entanglement has not arrived at the major: his father, he pointed out, is his father. "He does not care what a study on DNA says. Family is not just blood, it's what we build. The family is the heart. And my father is my father. He will give me a day at the altar, "he added.

Canning did not get to know his biological father because Duncan died young, at the age of 48, in 2012according to his obituary. "Baron has been playing bbad since the age of four.A well-known local musician, he has also toured for 10 years.s ", says the text, recalling that a month earlier, the mother of the bbadist, Gwneviera, had died too, and that the father, of the same name as the son, had died in 2008.

But the biological father he leaves other childrenand Canning started meeting with them to rearm his family tree with these aggregates.
-Do they look like you? Asked Tony Dokoupil, a journalist at CBS.
– a lot! Meeting my brother Stephen for the first time, it was like watching my twin. I literally burst into tears as soon as I saw him.

The woman believes that understanding the meaning of discovery will take longer. He does not know, for example, where he must say that he is American-Jamaican, because the biological heritage and the cultural construction of a person are different things. "It's a strange thing, can I say? I do not know. Is it possible that a DNA test tells me what I am and what is my identity? I do not know"

CBS accessed 23andMe and AncestryDNA the impact of the results on their clients, and both companies stated thatdtenten people who may receive "overwhelming information". No genetic counseling offer in its standard packaging.

Emily Drabant Conley, of 23andMe, pointed out that "it was not necessary:"People do a pregnancy test at home, which involves useful informationthen go to the next step, which is to talk to a doctor. We think that with DNA badysis, something very similar is happening. "AncestryDNA adds that he has a special team for people with" more sensitive doubts ".

The reporter stated that he had pbaded the exam in order to work on the note and he imagined that this would surprise him too"I am the only child of parents who have not married and had a crazy hippie life," he said. But for him, there was no impressive information.