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Problems and Pitfalls in Blood Grouping Tests for Disputed Parentage: III. Chances of Proving Non-Paternity by Blood Grouping Tests when the Putative Father is Dead1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Alexander S. Wiener
Alexander S. Wiener*
Affiliation:
Serological Laboratory of the Office of the Medical Examiner of New York City
*
64 Rutland Rd., Brooklyn, N. Y., U. S. A.

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General formulae for the chances of excluding paternity by blood grouping tests have been derived for the case where the falsely accused man is dead, but both his parents are available for testing. With the aid of the formulae, the chances of excluding paternity are shown to be about 31.1%, when tests are carried out for the A-B-O blood groups and subgroups, the M-N types, the Rh-Hr types and the Kell factor. These combined chances are about half the chances of exclusion when the putative father is alive and can be tested, so that it is very much worth while to carry out blood grouping tests in cases of this nature.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , July 1969 , pp. 285 - 293
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1969

Footnotes

1

This study was aided in whole by U. S. Public Health Service grant GM-09237-08.

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