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The specific power of parentage exclusion in a child's blood relatives.
Transfusion - 1 Mar 2005
Wenk Robert E, Gjertson David W, Chiafari Francis A, Houtz Terry
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The impersonation of parent and child by two other blood relatives is an important problem in parentage analysis involving potential immigrants. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: A statistic (AR) is proposed, based on the specific power of exclusion of paternity, which describes the ability of a child's test results to demonstrate evidence of nonparentage under the hypothesis that an ostensible parent is...
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