Parents gave their daughter a DNA test: it turned out that she had a different biological father

A US couple is suing a fertility clinic after learning their grown daughter is not biologically related to the father who raised her. Writes about it with the BBC.

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Mike and Janine Harvey discovered the error after they gave their daughter a homemade DNA test from the popular genealogy service AncestryDNA for Christmas.

Two years ago, the girl herself asked to give her a test that allows her to find her ancestors. Jessica knew that her dad had Italian roots. So I decided to look for distant relatives in Europe. And in return she found out that her father was not her own.

The fertility clinic says they take the accusation seriously.

“I was at work when the test results came back. I opened the letter and see that I have English roots. Irish, Welsh, German. Where are the Italian ones, maybe the Sicilian ones? What? No?" - Jessica was surprised.

Further testing showed that there was a 0% chance that she was biologically related to her father.

Mike and Janine went through a fertilization procedure known as intrauterine insemination at an Ohio State hospital in 1991, after which they had a daughter. The procedure involves injecting the partner's sperm directly into the uterus to increase the chances of getting pregnant.

According to the Harveys, for almost 30 years they did not even suspect anything.

“It’s like waking up in someone else’s life,” they said.

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The couple allege that Summa Health System used a stranger's genetic material to impregnate Janine Harvey.

The lawsuit says the family tracked down Jessica's biological father, who was undergoing fertility treatment at the same time as the Harvey family at the same clinic.

Jessica said that she talked to him, and he was glad to know that he had already become a father.

The Summa Health System clinic also commented.

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“We take this allegation seriously and understand the impact it has on the family. We have not yet met with her or done our own tests,” the clinic said in a statement.

Meanwhile, this is not the first case of such confusion.

A few years ago, California resident Daphne Cardinale was implanted with someone else's embryo. While another client of the clinic was carrying her child. It turned out after Daphne gave birth to a girl in 2019, who, according to the spouses, did not look like them.

Eventually, the two families took a DNA test and switched babies.

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