Article
Two-man and two-sibling paternity cases.
The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology - 1 Mar 1992
Wenk R E, Houtz T, Chiafari F A, Brooks M
Abstract excerpt
Traditional genetic marker systems rarely fail to resolve paternity disputes when two or more men are accused, except when men are brothers. A sibling of the biologic father may not be excluded by these laboratory tests and sometimes yields calculated odds of paternity that are equal to or higher than the true male parent. Resolved two-brother cases were compared with resolved cases involving two unrelated men....
Topics
- Alleles
- Consanguinity
- DNA
- DNA Probes
- Databases, Factual
- HLA Antigens
- Humans
- Male
- Paternity
- Probability