(01-04-2024, 08:44 PM)GeauxHomeLittleD Wrote: I would say that it is possibly in the DNA. I have certain abilities and have attracted particular beings/activities my entire life but didn't know that my mother did also, only finding out when I called her about a scary experience I had in my late 30s to have her tell me that it happens to her as well. I don't know for certain if it runs in the family because mom was adopted but one of my girls is extremely intuitive so maybe it runs in the family but the gifts can be different? Also I have gifts but my sister does not, one daughter has gifts but the other does not so possibly (in my case at least) there could be only one carrier of the gene per familial generation?
DNA inheritance works like this: You get half of your DNA from your mom, and half from your dad... but you have the same amount of DNA as everyone else, so that means you only get half of your mom's DNA and half of your dad's DNA.
To make it more complicated, each child gets a different "half", a different set of genes, from each parent, which makes their DNA a little different from all the other siblings. It's just the luck of the draw which subset of DNA each person gets.
I found this out when I went to reconstruct my dad's DNA, as he had never been tested - mass testing wasn't even available when he died. So I took my DNA and my sister's DNA, separated out which was from dad and which was from mom, and then combined dad's DNA from myself and my sister. The result was about a 75% reconstruction of dad's genome. The addition of each sibling adds about half of the amount from the last one added that is "new" DNA. That's because the sibling's DNA overlaps in parts, so half is "new" and half is shared. Theoretically, I could reconstruct about 96.9% of dad's genome if I could get all of my siblings DNA tested and combine them all, but it would take the DNA from 5 of us to reach that level.
All of this is a long winded explanation of why you and your siblings, and your kids and all their siblings, have slightly different sets of your parent's DNA. It may be that one gets the psych gene, while another doesn't because they got that gene from the other parent. That goes for ALL of your DNA. It's why one sibling may have blue eyes while another may have brown eyes - each got a different gene for eye color, although both had the same parents.
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