Combining autosomal and Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat data in paternity testing with male child: methods and application.

Abstract excerpt

Paternity testing is being increasingly requested with the aim of challenging presumptive fatherhood. The ability to establish the biological father is usually based on the genotyping of autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) in alleged father, mother and child, but the use of Y-chromosomal STR has gained interest in the last few years. In this work, we propose a new probabilistic approach that combines autosomal...

Topics

• Child
• Chromosomes, Human, Y
• DNA Fingerprinting
• Female
• Genotype
• Haplotypes
• Humans
• Male
• Models, Genetic
• Paternity
• Polymerase Chain Reaction
• Tandem Repeat Sequences