Article
Paternity evaluation in cases lacking a mother and nondetectable alleles.
International journal of legal medicine - 1 Jan 1994
Chakraborty R, Jin L, Zhong Y
Abstract excerpt
In parentage testing the formulae for computing paternity index and exclusion probability generally ignores the presence of nondetectable alleles at the loci tested. In contrast, it is now known that even when paternity testing is done with hypervariable DNA markers, nondetectable alleles should...
Topics
- Adult
- Alleles
- Child
- Chromosome Banding
- DNA
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Markers
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Mothers
- Paternity
- Probability