Prenatal paternity testing by DNA analysis
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A Lobbiani1, A Nocco, P Vedrietti
1Molecular Biology Laboratory, Clonit Sp A, Milan, Italy.
Prenatal Diagnosis
|May 1, 1991
Abstract:
Prenatal paternity testing was evaluated by DNA analysis in chorionic villus biopsies obtained during the 7th-22nd weeks of gestation. Using highly polymorphic variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) probes, we analysed four cases consisting of mother/child/alleged father trios. In all cases, we were able to detect maternal and paternal alleles and could establish or exclude paternity. The application of DNA analysis represents a new important diagnostic aid for all cases that require a prenatal identification of paternity.