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What I find particularly interesting, is that the "accredited lab" (presumably accredited by the FDA), just came back with a (misleading) negative result, but that 23andMe, which presumably was not accredited by the FDA at the time, provided results that cleared the issue up.



It's an issue of the question they were (perhaps implicitly) asked, not competence. For example:

http://www.dnacenter.com/dna-testing/paternal-lineage.html


Finding that the father has contributed ~1/4 of his genes to the child would normally exclude them from being described as the biological parent, who would normally contribute ~1/2 his genes to the child.

Possibly the father had no brothers, therefore no-one else could contribute even 1/4 of the genes (unless the child is a chimera from two fathers...).


Well, they are his genes. Just not for the whole body.




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