Usefulness of conventional blood groups, DNA-minisatellites, and short tandem repeat polymorphisms in paternity testing: a comparison

Analysis of disputed single-parent/child and sibling relationships using 16 STR loci

“…1,14,15,16,17]. These studies all find that STR multiplexes have a high power of discrimination for paternity testing.…”

Population genetic study of the three minisatellites loci: D7S21, D12S11 and D5S110 in Poland

“…In practice, both Lambert et al [7] in Great Britain and Sharma et al [8] in the USA did not observe any occurrence of an identical three-locus profile while analysing 16 and 69 thousands ones respectively. The research at our laboratory has proved Henke and Fimmers' [9] observations that two matches between the child and the alleged father in hypervariable minisatellite regions such as D7S21, D12S11 and D5S110 establish kinship between the subjects. This adjudicates that RFLP markers such as these investigated are invaluable help in resolving paternity determination cases, where the DNA profile of the defendant is not available as well as in analyses of the relationship between any given people.…”

Short tandem repeat (STRs) and sex specific Amelogenin analysis of blood samples from neurosurgical female transfused patients

“…[1][2][3] Unfortunately introduction of donor material (cells and proteins) by transfusion is known to dilute the recipient identity. 4 At present the use of blood transfusion has become more often than ever before, hence occasional cases with a history of transfusion may be encountered in a forensic laboratory for the establishment of identity or paternity.…”