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BOYD, R. Seller: John L. Contact seller. First Edition. Used - Hardcover.Woman who took home DNA test discovers her real father is not an anonymous donor but in fact a removals man from Essex - whose sperm was used by Harley Street doctor without permission to impregnate her mother
A shocked woman discovered with an at-home DNA test that her real father was a removals man from Essex whose sperm had been used without his permission by a Harley Street fertility doctor.
The disturbing story is set to be revealed in The Gift, a new BBC radio series which will air from next Monday.
It explores how millions of Britons and others across the world have taken tests sold by firms including and 23andMe, often after being given them as presents from friends and family.
One of the anonymous interviewees, who is identified under the false name of Madeleine, had always believed her father was a young medical student who had willingly donated his sperm before it was used to impregnate her mother at a clinic run by Dr Reynold H Boyd, who died aged 90 in
Having come to suspect that Dr Boyd himself might be her father, she took a DNA test but found after uploading the results to Ancestry's website that the fertility expert was not related to her.
Instead, her real father turned out to be a man identified as Peter, who had never been a sperm donor but had produced samples at another clinic in East London run by Dr Boyd when trying to conceive with his wife.
Biography and reynold h boyd books Federal government websites often end in. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you're on a federal government site. The site is secure. NCBI Bookshelf. Davis G, Loughran T, editors.It is believed Dr Boyd then used Peter's sperm when treating Madeleine's mother, who was allegedly unaware about its true origins.
A shocked woman discovered with an at-home DNA test that her real father was a removals man from Essex whose sperm had been used without his permission by a Harley Street fertility doctor. Above: The woman's mother was treated at the clinic of Dr Reynold Boyd, at 52 Harley Street (pictured).
The clinic closed decades ago
Peter, who is now in his 80s and is retired, had done his own DNA test after he received one as a gift from his family.
Madeleine, who was born in , initially sent messages to him on Ancestry's platform but received no reply.
After tracking down his phone number, she then rang him out of the blue.
Biography and reynold h boyd author Boyd was born into slavery at the B. Gray plantation in Noxubee County , Mississippi , on March 15, He was one of ten children of his mother, Indiana Dixon. In , he was sold to Benoni W. Gray, who took him to a cotton plantation near Brenham in Washington County , Texas.Madeleine says in the upcoming programme: 'He answered the phone and I said, "I'm a match to you on Ancestry.
"A parent-child match, on the DNA test." He sounded a bit confused and just said "what do you mean?"
'I said, "On Ancestry. Ancestry, you know, the DNA test you did. I told him about the clinic, I said my mum had been there, and donor-conceived sperm and things like that.
'He said, "I really don't know what you mean'.
And then I said, "did you not go to a fertility clinic in London and donate your sperm?"
'And then he said no, no he didn't. Then he started saying, well thinking about it he had been to a fertility clinic but it wasn't in London, it was in Wanstead
Dr Reynold H Boyd died aged 90 in
'I was like oh my god, that clinic is run by Dr Reynold Boyd,' she said.
Dr Boyd's clinic, at 52 Harley Street, closed decades ago.
As was then common, Dr Boyd wrote his own obituary.
Biography and reynold h boyd A shocked woman discovered with an at-home DNA test that her real father was a removals man from Essex whose sperm had been used without his permission by a Harley Street fertility doctor. It explores how millions of Britons and others across the world have taken tests sold by firms including Ancestry. One of the anonymous interviewees, who is identified under the false name of Madeleine, had always believed her father was a young medical student who had willingly donated his sperm before it was used to impregnate her mother at a clinic run by Dr Reynold H Boyd, who died aged 90 in Having come to suspect that Dr Boyd himself might be her father, she took a DNA test but found after uploading the results to Ancestry's website that the fertility expert was not related to her. Instead, her real father turned out to be a man identified as Peter, who had never been a sperm donor but had produced samples at another clinic in East London run by Dr Boyd when trying to conceive with his wife.It is in a file available on the website of the British Medical Journal.
It tells how he was born in New Zealand and had traveled to England with his wife in the s.
He initially specialised in genitourinary surgery before moving on to infertility treatment.
As well as his clinics in Harley Street and East London, he also had a set-up in Chelmsford.
'I began working in fertility when a semen analysis was an insult to the husband,' he wrote.
'I pioneered artificial insemination.'
Peter says in the programme that he never consented for his sperm to be used 'willy nilly'.
'All I can assume that Madeline's mother went up there to try and sort herself out and got some of my stuff,' he adds.
Madeleine went on to meet her father in person, an experience she described as 'awkward' because he was 'a complete stranger'.
Madeleine did not discover until she was 40 that the man she had always believed to be her biological father was not her real dad.
She and her brother were conceived in separate fertility clinics after the man she believed to be her father had had a vasectomy.
Presenter Jenny Kleeman says in the preview for The Gift that a global database of DNA has been created 'without us really noticing' as a result of people using the kits.
The series will hear from other men and women whose lives were changed after taking a test, which are priced at £59 by and require users to spit into a tube before sending it off in the post.
Ms Kleeman adds: 'Over six episodes, I will be meeting the men and women whose lives changes forever after they opened a box containing a DNA test.'
Ancestry's DNA kits, which have been bought by millions of Britons, promise to reveal behavioural traits that are determined by your genetics.
Above: One of the kits
DNA databases on popular websites have in the past been used to help solve crimes.
The infamous serial killer Joseph James DeAngelo, better known as the Golden State Killer, was caught using the method.
Officers created a DNA profile of DeAngelo using crime scene evidence and then uploaded it to a public genealogy database ordinarily used by people to find relatives.
Police were then able to identify the killer's distant relatives and then used public records to build a family tree and eventually identify him.
Ancestry's DNA kits, which have been bought by millions of Britons, promise to reveal behavioural traits that are determined by your genetics, including whether you are introverted or a risk taker.
Ancestry's kits are priced at £ Above: The test taken by a MailOnline reporter earlier this year
Ancestry determines behavioural traits by surveying people who have had their DNA analysed, and finding correlations between their genes and responses
Earlier this year, a MailOnline reporter put one of the kits to the test.
While some of the identified traits were correct, others - including the likelihood of taking naps and remembering dreams - did not match up to reality.
Some Britons have discovered earth-shattering facts about their parentage using the DNA kits.
Teacher Nicki Field told MailOnline in how she used one of Ancestry's tests to help find her real father.
She had been told by her mother when she was a teenager that the man she thought was her dad was in fact just her stepfather.
Her mother then told her that a man called Gary Holmes was her father, but DNA tests showed he was not related to her.
After sending her DNA to , she posted the results on sites which match people with shared genes.
Finally, in July , she was alerted to someone who was said to be her first cousin.
Further investigations revealed that his uncle, a married dad of four, was Nicki's biological father.
The Gift begins on Monday 11th September at with episodes broadcast on BBC Radio 4 weekly. Episodes will be available to listen back on BBC Sounds.
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