The region Cândido Godói likelihood of multiple births by 1000% higher than elsewhere Bashny.Net

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A small area in Southern Brazil Candido Godoy-called "land of twins". As the name implies, the twins born here a lot - so ending about 10% of births. Of course, for an explanation of the phenomenon have been several theories.

Some people blame the mysterious element in urban water, others blame the Nazis, in particular the "Angel of Death" Josef Mengele, one of the most ruthless followers of Hitler. During the war, Mengele conducted on prisoners horrific medical experiments trying to create for their Fuehrer perfect Aryan race. He was interested, and the reasons for which the twins are born - he wanted to double the birth rate.



It is believed that after the war, Mengele fled to Brazil and settled somewhere in Candida-Godoe. Many local think that he came to the settlements in the guise of a doctor, and returned several times here in the 1960s to treat poselyanok. It is often watered women Country drugs, which are now believed to have hormones that increase the likelihood of twins. It turned Mengele city influence was so strong that local still recognize it in photographs.

But scientists have long been debunked this myth. In 2009, the geneticist Ursula Matte and her team of 20 researchers checked the DNA of 30 Brazilian families. They found that certain groups of women have a gene responsible for the increased likelihood of multiple births. Neither water nor Mengele had nothing to do with it.





It was possible to find that most of twins born in the village of San Pedro - 33 pairs of 436-year-births from 1959 to 2008 year. This is an area of ​​1, 5 square kilometers.





Analyzing church documents, Matte and her team concluded that the twins were born here long before Mengele. Scientists believe that the gene "delivered" to the region immigrants, as did the rest of inbreeding.



via factroom.ru