An Ethiopian couple suspected of incest by the Australian government have been told their visa case cannot be reviewed despite fresh DNA evidence that scuttles the claim.
reported last year that Australian citizen Daniel Tadese, 49, had been separated from his wife, Genet Abebe, and now-five-year-old son since the then Immigration Department demanded the couple undergo DNA testing while Ms Abebe was pregnant.
The couple vigorously denied the claims and have spent years in a costly legal wrangle with the government to have the decision overturned. “Updated SNP genotyping data for Daniel, Genet and their son, Natnael, shows Daniel and Genet share zero significant chromosomal segments.” “Imagine being told for years that you had married and had a child with your sister, and being denied a visa because of your incest, when you strongly believe this to not be true”.The Age“I immediately felt that this test was flawed ... for humans, using microsatellites for relatedness calculations is really at least 15 years out of date,” he said.
People who share a recent ancestor have long segments of shared ancestry, but as you go further back the lengths of these shared segments shrinks, Dr Veale said.
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