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Fertility experts warn further life-changing historical errors could be discovered in Australia's IVF industry, as DNA testing becomes more widespread and accessible.
It comes after the ABC revealed a historical embryo mix-up at Royal North Shore Hospital in 1995, which led to a woman giving birth to twins who were not biologically related to her.
The mistake was only discovered after one of the twins, Sasha Szafranski, submitted her DNA to online genealogy website Ancestry.com three decades later.
Former embryologist and patient advocate Lucy Lines said while she was saddened by the revelations on Tuesday of another IVF mix-up, she was not surprised.
Ms Lines said the increasing availability of DNA testing could see more IVF mistakes discovered in the future.
"We are going to uncover more and more situations where people don't have the parentage that they thought they did," she said.
She said that all people who underwent IVF deserved transparency, but warned those seeking to confirm their genealogy with DNA testing should do so after careful consideration.
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