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Paternity probability when a relative of the father is an alleged father.
Science & justice : journal of the Forensic Science Society - 1 Jan 2000
Lee J W, Lee H S, Park M, Hwang J J
Abstract excerpt
When scientists use DNA evidence in court, coancestry effects such as population structure and relatedness are usually ignored. In paternity cases, only if a particular man has the child's paternal allele at a certain locus, can he not be excluded in the paternity dispute. However, it is certainly true that close relatives will be far more likely to have the child's paternal allele than will random members of the...
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