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Article: Paternity Evidence
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- World of Forensic Science
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Paternity Evidence
The general concept of testing for paternity is centered on the establishment of information about hereditary factors that either exclude an individual from consideration of being the biological father of a child, or reveal a convincing pattern of consistency that supports a claim of biological paternity. Exclusion can be absolute
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it is indeed possible to disprove a person's role as biological father. It is not possible, however, to make a positive proof of paternity. This side is always a probability calculation. Thus, the development of paternity evidence involves both physical testing, through
DNA
or other biochemical markers, and probability calculations ...