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Assessing false paternity risk in simulated motherless cases from more than 20 000 real exclusion trios.
Transfusion - 1 Mar 2021
Aguiar Vitor R C, de Castro Amanda M, Pinto Laélia M, Ferreira Alessandro C S, Dos Santos Eldamária V W, Louro Iuri D
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: When the mother's DNA profile is not available for paternity testing, there is a smaller probability that a locus will exclude an alleged father. This study aims to evaluate the risk of potential false paternity inclusions in motherless cases. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: More than 20 000 duos were generated by removing the maternal genotypes from exclusion trios. After recalculating paternity in these...
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