Amazing that they can sequence the DNA that fast. I'd like to know more about that technology. I always advise my male clients to get one before they agree to pay child support when they were not married to the mother, and sometimes even if they were, and it takes a couple of weeks to get the results back.
I was just watching a show on TV, where a doctor was expressing a view : typically, in DNA matching for 1 person, you have a known good sample, and then the sample thats recently taken. Assuming both samples have not been mishandled, or tampered etc etc, there is a 99.9% possibility of a match. If either has been mishandled, tampered etc etc, its extremely difficult to prove a match. If you hurry up the process, the match can be determined or negated within 10-12 hours.
In the situation you describe, he said (because the interviewer asked him - whys it take so long in our courts?), you got to match 3 sets of DNA, to prove their authenticity against a known good sample you have : father, mother, kid. Then you got to work on the permutations and combinations of father+mother = kid. and reach some answer that will stand scrutiny. |
