DNA Test Reveals Lifelong Best Friends Are Sisters
Two women adopted from orphanages in Mumbai in the 1980s and raised in the Netherlands learned decades into their friendship that they are biological sisters, BBC News reported.
Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen were adopted as children from orphanages in Mumbai, India, in the 1980s and grew up in the Netherlands, according to BBC News.
The two women became close friends over the following decades, unaware of any biological connection between them, the report said.
A DNA test later revealed that Geltink and Tijssen are in fact sisters, BBC News reported, though the outlet did not provide further details on when or why the test was taken.
The discovery adds to a growing number of cases in which DNA testing has uncovered previously unknown family ties among people separated through adoption, particularly those placed in international adoption systems decades ago.
BBC News did not specify further details about the women's early separation or their reaction to the revelation in the excerpt reviewed.
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- Best friends for decades - until a DNA test revealed they were sisters — BBC News — World
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