Twins Amelia and Jasmine are now being hailed as the first twins in the UK with different skin colours despite being born from the same egg. Both the girls are just a year old. This comes as a huge surprise as doctors had told their then-pregnant mother, 37-year-old Libby Appleby, that the babies would look so similar that they’d need to marked with ink.
So, when the girls were delivered at the University Durham Hospital, the medics couldn’t believe their eyes because the sisters had different skin and eye colours. Their parents, Libby and her partner Tafadzwa Madzimbamuto, 40, found out that they were expecting in June 2014.
A placenta sample has confirmed that the babies are not only monozygotic twins but also are 100 percent genetically identical. Experts believe that the differences in the appearances could be a result of a change happening in the very early stages of development – called somatic mutation, according to Metro.uk.
