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If an alleged father is unavailable for DNA paternity testing because he is missing or deceased, Beta Paternity may be able to perform a grandparentage test to determine whether a child is related to the alleged father’s biological parents.

However, if one or both biological grandparents on the alleged father’s side are unavailable for testing, Beta Paternity may recommend that a genetic reconstruction be performed instead of a grandparentage test.

In a genetic reconstruction, a child’s DNA profile is compared with that of two close relatives of the missing alleged father. A close relative can be a biological parent or a full brother or sister of the alleged father. The child’s mother is also tested to account for half of the child’s DNA.

The results of a genetic reconstruction state the likelihood with which the child is related to the alleged father’s tested family members. (Because the alleged father was not actually tested, Beta Paternity does not make inferences about the alleged father’s relationship to the child.) For some people, this likelihood of relatedness result is enough to infer on their own that the missing alleged father is—or is not—the biological father of the child.

You can trust your test results from Beta Paternity. For every paternity test we do, two separate teams independently analyze all the samples to guarantee the most accurate results. Once the two teams have completed their independent tests on the samples, they compare their results to ensure they match.

Testing all samples twice eliminates the possibility of a false exclusion, a result that inaccurately states that the tested father is not the biological father of the tested child. False exclusions may occur with sample contaminations or sample mix-ups and are therefore a common mistake in other laboratories that do not test samples twice.

Beta Paternity offers a double guarantee on the accuracy and quick turnaround time of its results. Read about that guarantee by visiting http://www.betagenetics.com/guarantee.html.

we had a dna test for paternity 16 years ago and it excluded the “mike” it was done by taking blood from all 3 of us.my question i have been trying to get answered is ..how accurate was the testing back then and could it have errors. reason being my daughter and “mike’s” daughter(different mothers) look almost like twins, built alike, smile the same, all the same features! Somebody please help! we all need to know.