This study is the first to characterise type of people trying resolve unknown parentage cases in UK and Ireland, how successful their efforts are, using commercial DTC (direct-to-consumer) DNA tests. A survey was conducted individuals born or with a biological parent from who had used genetic genealogy as part search for one both parents. Success rates were high assisting identification birth 4...

Fourteen microsatellite DNA markers were developed for studies of gene flow in the Neotropical rain forest tree Virola surinamensis. The loci were unlinked and polymorphic in a sample of 21 individuals, with two to 10 alleles per locus and observed heterozygosity ranging from 0.14 to 0.76. The overall exclusion probability (0.997) indicates high resolution for parentage-based analyses of gene f...

Motivation Repetitive DNA is detected for variety of reasons. Among other things, repetitive DNA is generally not found to have any function and thus can be masked out for computational purposes in homology searches to avoid an explosion of unnecessary results. In addition, since repetitive DNA is usually reliably inherited without much change from parents to their offspring, they are suitable ...