HAVE YOU FOUND YOUR DOPPELGANGER?

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Women who look almost identical have DNA test to see if they are related

Niamh Geaney tracked down her
doppelgänger Irene Adams using her website TwinStrangers.com, and the pair decided to see if their uncanny resemblance was more than skin deep

These girls may look like identical twins, but it has been scientifically proven that they are NOT sisters - and it is very unlikely they are even related.
Niamh Geaney tracked down her doppelgänger Irene Adams using her websiteTwinStrangers.com, and the pair decided to see if their uncanny resemblance was more than skin deep.
Surprisingly the results revealed they had just a 1.1 percent chance of being half sisters but showed no other signs of actually being related - despite looking identical, and both being Irish.
The results showed their families were not even related because Niamh's ancestors originated from South West Asia 20,000 years ago whilst Irene's came from Mesopotamia.
Niamh, 27, said: "We both always had this natural curiosity to find out if we were related at all.
"It was the comments on YouTube and social media that finally made us go for the test, everyone was just so curious and wanted us to prove we weren't related.
"I mean we just wanted to know if there was something more behind us being identical, I thought at least 200,000 years ago there might have been a connection.
"When we got the results we weren't too surprised, we didn't expect anything to come of it really, it would have been really special if we had but the whole point of a doppelgänger is that you're not supposed to be related."

Niamh has so far found three of her doubles and now devotes her time to helping other people find theirs.

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