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Can sources of specimens be different within a case, such as a buccal swab from the child and blood from the adults?

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Can sources of specimens be different within a case, such as a buccal swab from the child and blood from the adults?

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DNA testing can use different sources because except for persons who have had a bone marrow transplant, DNA markers are the same in all the body’s nucleated cells. Buccal swabs should be used anytime a person being tested has had a bone marrow transplant.