A blonde-haired, blue-eyed white girl born to two black parents with no known white ancestry will undergo full genetic tests.
UK-born Nmachi Ihegboro was born on Sunday with a full head of blonde-hair and white skin, despite having no known Caucasian ancestry from her Nigerian-born parents, the Sun reported.
The devout Christian couple were astonished to discover they had given birth to a daughter of Caucasian appearance, describing her as a "miracle baby".
Geneticist Dr Mark Thomas said the odds of the couple giving birth to a white, non-albino baby were between "many millions to one and a million to one".
"I suspect there's been a mixture of a mutation, like albinism, combined with a dormant white gene," he said.
Genetic experts are now studying Nmachi to determine why she has such European features but her father Ben said it doesn't quite matter how the baby came about.
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