title: [Mono- and dizygotic twins in forensic paternity testing in practice at the Department of Forensic Medicine (Silesian Academy of Medicine, Katowice) in the years 1996-2003].
abstract: Giving an opinion on disputable paternity, concerning monozygotic twins in practice at the Department of Forensic Medicine (Silesian Academy of Medicine, Katowice) demonstrated their ideal agreement according to examined genetic markers possible. Even the mutation, which was revealed using the RFLP-VNTR method was the same for both twin sisters. In the case of dizygotic twins a firm differentiation of paternity index and probability of paternity was proved. This was the consequence of independent features segregation in first, reductive meiotic division. While the rare, out-ladder allele 16 at the CSF1PO locus was transmitted to both twins: a daughter and a son by the putative father.
authors.affiliation: Z Katedry Medycyny Sadowej Slaskiej AM w Katowicach. medsad@slam.katowice.pl
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Raczek
mesh_terms: D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010334:Paternity; D011044:Poland; D011336:Probability; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences / Q000235:genetics*; D014429:Twins, Dizygotic / Q000235:genetics*; D014430:Twins, Monozygotic / Q000235:genetics*