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Paternity testing: I. Calculation of paternity indexes

  1. L. Kaiser1,2,
  2. Dr. G. A. F. Seber1,2,*,
  3. John M. Opitz Editor

Article first published online: 2 JUN 2005

DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320150216

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American Journal of Medical Genetics

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volume 15, Issue 2, pages 323–329, June 1983

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Kaiser, L., Seber, G. A. F. and Opitz, J. M. (1983), Paternity testing: I. Calculation of paternity indexes. Am. J. Med. Genet., 15: 323–329. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.1320150216

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  1. 1

    Division of Statistics, University of California at Davis, New Zealand

  2. 2

    and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auckland University, New Zealand

*Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auckland University, Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 2 JUN 2005
  2. Article first published online: 2 JUN 2005
  3. Manuscript Revised: 24 JAN 1983
  4. Manuscript Received: 2 NOV 1982

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Keywords:

  • paternity testing;
  • paternity index;
  • gene frequencies;
  • gene count method

Abstract

An algorithm, readily adaptable to microcomputers, is given for computing paternity indexes. A closed-form expression based only on gene frequencies and phenotype structures is derived for the paternity index for a given mother/child/alleged father trio and any blood group system. This above work is applied to the problem of estimating gene frequencies from sample data.

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