By Bridie Pearson-jones For Mailonline
Published: 18:59 BST, 22 June 2019 | Updated: 19:00 BST, 22 June 2019
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Down on their luck singles in Japan have taken a very modern approach to dating - by signing up to a service that matches their DNA with a potential mate.
Nozze, a Tokyo-based matchmaking service that's been running for more than 25 years, launched a DNA matching course in January and has seen hundreds of singletons sign up in the hope they'll find their perfect genetic match.
The singles hope to find a partner well matched to their HLA - a gene complex with more than 16,000 variations that's related to the immune system.
Nozze, a Tokyo-based matchmaking service that's been running for more than 25 years, launched a DNA matching course in January and has seen hundreds of singletons sign up in the hope they'll find their perfect genetic match
Last month the company held their first ever DNA matching party in Tokyo's trendy Ginza neighbourhood, in the hope they'd be able to match 26 men and women.
Of the attendees, four couples matched up according to Sora News. All had a DNA compatibility rating of more than 80 per cent, with one couple a 32-year-old woman and a 41-year-old man scoring 98 per cent.
The matches are based on a survivalist scientific theory that people with more diverse DNA are more attracted to one another, based on their potential offspring being immune to more illnesses.
Those who want to meet their match need to give a saliva sample to the dating company, which will then be analysed by scientists to find out detail of their HLA genes.
The matches are based on a survivalist scientific theory that people with more diverse DNA are more attracted to one another, based on their potential offspring being immune to more illnesses
The company then find potential couples based on how similar the HLA genes are.
