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Paternity,
Maternity and Kinship |
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Parentage
testing with the highest degree of accuracy requires testing the
father, child and mother. Why test the mother? Without knowing the mother's
DNA pattern, certain statistical assumptions must be made, and the testing is
less accurate. One STR allele is inherited from each parent. |
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For
each STR system two alleles are identified, and the probability that this is
the true biological parent can be readily calculated. The mother's DNA is subtracted
from the child's DNA pattern. What remains is a very specific DNA pattern that
was contributed by the biological father. |
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Forensic
Paternity |
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STR DNA testing is a new and powerful tool to help resolve cases of statutory
rape resulting in pregnancy. We have extensive experience, working with prosecutors,
providing full service STR DNA testing, genetic evaluation, reporting and court-testimony.
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The
same kind of tests can be used to determine paternity, maternity, or sibship
even when the parents may not be available for testing. More complex genetic
relationships such as aunt-niece, uncle-nephew, grandparents, can also be
determined from the techniques we utilize at DNA
Forensic Consultants.
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More
sophisticated, more accurate
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Scientific
tests to determine parentage have evolved from very simple
tests, using blood groups in the 1930's, to more sophisticated tests, using
HLA (leukocyte antigens) in the 1970's, to the most complex and robust tests,
PCR STR DNA tests in the 1990's. During this time the accuracy, the probability
of parentage or identifying non-matches, has increased greatly. Initially,
any probability greater than 90% was considered useful. Today we can achieve
a 99.9% probability.. |
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Contact
us now for a confidential and free consultation for our Paternity,
Maternity and Kinship services... |
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