The International Society for Forensic Genetics (ISFG) has established a Paternity Testing Commission (PTC) with the purpose of formulating international recommendations concerning genetic investigations in paternity testing. The PTC recommends that paternity testing be performed in accordance with the ISO 17025 standards. The ISO 17025 standards are general standards for testing laboratories a...

Paternity testing can be done by older methods including ABO blood group typing, analysis of various other proteins and enzymes, or using human leukocyte antigen (HLA). However, DNA testing became the only formal and exact method for the paternity testing now. For DNA testing of paternity determination, the DNA collection using an easily obtained cheek swab saliva sample. Fast, proprietary and ...

DNA paternity testing has recently become more widely available in Japan. The aim of this paper is to examine the issues surrounding (1) the implementing agency, whether the testing is conducted in a commercial direct-to-consumer (DTC) setting or a judicial non-DTC setting, and (2) the implementation conditions and more specifically the legal capacity of the proband (test subject). Literature r...

Genotyping for five short tandem repeat (STR) loci HUMvWA, HUMFES, HUMTPO, HUMTH01 and D3S1359 was done in 220 unrelated individuals from the population of Isfahan province of IR Iran. The loci were genotyped using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) followed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and silver staining. The data demonstrated that the STR markers were all found informative i...

genotyping for five short tandem repeat (str) loci humvwa, humfes, humtpo, humth01 and d3s1359 was done in 220 unrelated individuals from the population of isfahan province of ir iran. the loci were genotyped using the polymerase chain reaction (pcr) followed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (page) and silver staining. the data demonstrated that the str markers were all found informative i...

Paternity certainty and matrilineal family ties have been used to explain the asymmetric caregiving of grandparents and aunts and uncles. The proximate mechanisms underlying biased kin investment, however, remain unclear. A central question of the study presented here was whether the parent-kin relationship is an important link in the caregiving. In a two-generational questionnaire study, we as...