What is a grandparent test?
• Grandparents are a great option for testing if the alleged parent is unavailable. The grandparents contributed all the genes to their child, the alleged parent. Thus the grandparents will match their grandchild with the same accuracy as the alleged parent. What is involved with a Siblingship study? • If the alleged father is not available for testing but has known children, those children could be tested with the child in question to determine if that are full or half siblings. The mother or mothers of the tested children are also requested to submit a DNA sample if they are available. How is DNA used in adoption cases? • Paternity testing to accurately identify birth fathers is becoming more common request by adoptive professionals and parents to solidify the proceedings. Although adoptions processes vary efforts to locate birth fathers for parental relinquishments has become a higher priority since the publicised cases such as the Baby Richard case. The paternity testing serves as
