Article
STR typing in a deficiency case of disputed paternity.
Nihon hoigaku zasshi = The Japanese journal of legal medicine - 1 Dec 1996
Fukuda M, Kishida T, Wang W, Tamaki Y
Abstract excerpt
In a case of disputed paternity where the alleged father was dead and the children and their mothers were available for testing, we analyzed 23 conventional hemogenetic markers and six short tandem repeat loci. We deduced the possible types of the alleged father and calculated the probability of paternity. Conventional phenotypings did not provide conclusive proof of paternity. In contrast, typing of the short...
Topics
- Alleles
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Paternity
- Pedigree
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Probability
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
