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Laboratory evidence of unsuspected parental consanguinity among cases of disputed paternity.
Forensic science international - 1 Jan 2000
Houtz T D, Wenk R E, Brooks M A, Dawson R B
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A search was conducted to find evidence of possible incestuous unions between the biologic parents of children involved in 2500 paternity cases. Suspicion was raised when either (1) a mother and her child possessed identical HLA phenotypes, or (2) the child appeared to be possibly homozygous for one maternal haplotype (i.e., one of the child's HLA haplotypes was a blank). These mother-child HLA-haplotype dualisms...
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