Overview

• Dr. Max Rempel says 11 of 581 families in the 1,000 Genomes Project show clusters of variants not matching either parent, including a reported set of 348 non-parental markers.
• He points to some cases involving births before 1990, which he argues rules out modern gene-editing as an explanation.
• A review of 23andMe data from self-identified abductees found strings of non-parental markers in some families, while others showed none.
• Rempel contends array-based genotyping is inadequate and seeks repository access, funding, and volunteers for non-cultured whole-genome or next-generation sequencing to assess the anomalies.
• Skeptics, including UFO researcher Nigel Watson, warn that technical artifacts, small samples, and unverified abduction accounts could account for the findings, and no independent confirmation has been reported.