Probability of Paternity in Paternity Testing Using the DNA Fingerprint Procedure

31 December 1988

journal article
research article
Published by S. Karger AG in Human Heredity

Vol. 39 (3), 165-169
https://doi.org/10.1159/000153853

Abstract

For the purpose of applying DNA fingerprinting to paternity testing, we established a general formula to calculate the probability of paternity and evaluated the ability of DNA fingerprinting to determine paternity.

Keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING
PATERNITY DETERMINATION
PROBABILITY OF PATERNITY
BAYES’ THEOREM

This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:

Individual Identification from Semen by the Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Fingerprint Technique
Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1989
DNA FINGERPRINTS AND SEGREGATION ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE MARKERS IN HUMAN PEDIGREES
1986
Hypervariable ‘minisatellite’ regions in human DNA
Nature, 1985

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