Examinations for the Investigation of Paternity

Abstract

The AA have the principle on which the examination of paternity are based. They discuss the value of the probabilities related to each one of the tests usually used. They conclude that the most efficient tests is the DNA one, of whereas all of the others allow us to prove the exclusion of paternity, such a test proves it with 100% of certainty. They describe the structure of the DNA and the means to use it in the examination of paternity in a simplified way. Furthermore, they analyses the possible causes of error of such a technique.