Paternity tests involve random ~50% of your dna. Sperm samples are generally contaminated and thus less clear cut. But, people’s relatives have been used in the past for these tests dropping the bar even further.
However, being related genetically is not enough. Some people have twin siblings they don’t know about pointing out being related is not nessisarily mean you know anything about the other person allowing for false positives even at 3,400cM.
Unlikely sure, but harm comes in many forms. Saying I can’t think of anything is a long way from saying it’s safe.
But how else are you going to get evidence? Doing a paternity test is the act of gathering data which could further be used as evidence of faithfulness of your partner.
Or else it's just blind trust without any firm footing in reality.
If you can't be arsed to do the test for a ONCE or TWICE in a lifetime kind of event with long term consequences because you somehow feel hurt that your partner isn't a fool who builds his life around blind faith.. well, there's not much to be said...
A paternity test is harder to get right. If there's a difference in a DNA matching test, that eliminates the possibility. With a paternity test, you're just looking for similarity so there less ways to rule one out
What are you on ? It's perfectly legal, there's just a process to follow because it's completely illegal to take someone's DNA without their consent, unless there's a criminal procedure with sufficient proof.
Sneaking a paternity test by taking someone's DNA surreptitiously would be not only worthless as a legal document, but also put you on the spot for litigation.
I don't know if this is the commenter's intent but isn't there a potential false positive issue with DNA testing?
Something along the lines of if only 0.01 percent of the world's population can match a DNA sequence found that still leaves us with a million matches where I just made up both those numbers.
Speaking as a non-expert, it sounds too good to be true with the regular reports of false-positives and false-negatives from DNA testing. I'm with this person: They did something illegal to save lives.
Paternity tests involve random ~50% of your dna. Sperm samples are generally contaminated and thus less clear cut. But, people’s relatives have been used in the past for these tests dropping the bar even further.
However, being related genetically is not enough. Some people have twin siblings they don’t know about pointing out being related is not nessisarily mean you know anything about the other person allowing for false positives even at 3,400cM.
Unlikely sure, but harm comes in many forms. Saying I can’t think of anything is a long way from saying it’s safe.
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