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Probability of paternity in paternity testing using the DNA fingerprint procedure. 1989

M Honma, and I Ishiyama

Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.

For the purpose of applying DNA fingerprinting to paternity testing, we established a general formula to calculate the probability of paternity and evaluated the ability of DNA fingerprinting to determine paternity.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D009710	Nucleotide Mapping	Two-dimensional separation and analysis of nucleotides.	Fingerprints, Nucleotide,Fingerprint, Nucleotide,Mapping, Nucleotide,Mappings, Nucleotide,Nucleotide Fingerprint,Nucleotide Fingerprints,Nucleotide Mappings
D010334	Paternity	Establishing the father relationship of a man and a child.	Paternities
D011110	Polymorphism, Genetic	The regular and simultaneous occurrence in a single interbreeding population of two or more discontinuous genotypes. The concept includes differences in genotypes ranging in size from a single nucleotide site (POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE) to large nucleotide sequences visible at a chromosomal level.	Gene Polymorphism,Genetic Polymorphism,Polymorphism (Genetics),Genetic Polymorphisms,Gene Polymorphisms,Polymorphism, Gene,Polymorphisms (Genetics),Polymorphisms, Gene,Polymorphisms, Genetic
D011336	Probability	The study of chance processes or the relative frequency characterizing a chance process.	Probabilities
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man