title: An unusual case 0020 in paternity testing: nineteen autosomal short tandem repeat typing and 12 X-chromosome markers could not clarify the case.
abstract: We introduce a case of disputed parentage with 2 presumptive related fathers, although using multiple genetic systems, neither of the 2 fathers may be excluded. Nineteen autosomal short tandem repeat typing and 12 X-chromosome markers could not clarify the case. We can conclude that forensic autosomic short tandem repeats included in commercial kits are not sufficient to definitively discriminate parent-offspring with related putative fathers in forensic laboratories, and supplementary investigations should be available for selected cases.
authors.affiliation: From the *Iranian Legal Medicine Research Center and †Department of Pathology Lab, Research Center, Fars Legal Medicine, Shiraz, Iran.
authors.forename: Arash Alipour
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Tabrizi
authors.forename: Arya
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hejazi
authors.forename: Marzieh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hosseini
mesh_terms: D041321:Chromosomes, Human, X; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005819:Genetic Markers; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D008297:Male; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D010334:Paternity; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers