Paternity testing and the identification of genetic parents via DNA analysis has, within the last decade, become a highly reliable test upon which courts and medical staff increasingly rely.
Paternity or parentage identification is based on the ability to establish the genetic relationship between the parent(s) and their biological offspring.
Although modern paternity testing is continues to gain wide acceptance across the Unite States, as of 2003 there were still some states where sixteenth century ancient English Common Law concepts remain dominate in determinations of parentage. Under these concepts, unless a husband who challenges the legitimacy of an offspring can prove impotency, or that he was out of the country at the time of c…
In brief, the limitation of the method includes a smaller number of alleles and less heterozygosity per locus; the possibility of contamination from stray DNA is increased because of the amplification process. The amplification process also may lead to the formation of "stutter bands", artifacts or preferential amplification, leading to imprecise interpretation of the result. For som…
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