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Two brothers met for the first time after spending more than 50 years apart. Rob Weissberg and George Legeros had no idea that the other existed until Rob’s wife started an Internet search. Rob knew that he had been adopted and that he had a biological sister, but he did not know anything about a brother.

Earlier this month, the two men were reunited in Richboro, Pennsylvania. As they talked, Rob learned that his biological mother had been poor and unwed when she gave birth and chose to place Rob into adoption.

The two men are confident that they are biologically related (George says Rob’s nose proves they have the same father), but they have chosen to undergo DNA siblingship testing to confirm their relationship.

Beta Genetics offers both full- and half-siblingship DNA tests that can identify the likelihood that two people are related to one or both parents. Samples are collected through painless buccal swabs, and results are typically ready within 14 days. To learn more about siblingship tests and other DNA tests, please visit Beta’s DNA Testing Services page.

With one look at a piece of paper, one father’s life changed forever.

After six years of fatherhood to his son, Joshua, Shaun Broadwell, a man in the United Kingdom, received DNA paternity test results that revealed that he was not Joshua’s biological father. Within a week of the results, his ex-girlfriend, Joshua’s mother, informed Broadwell that he could no longer see Joshua. Had Broadwell suspected his girlfriend’s infidelity earlier, he might have been able to prevent this heartache by undergoing the paternity DNA test sooner.

DNA paternity tests can be performed at any age. During the time that Joshua was conceived, Broadwell and his ex-girlfriend (Joshua’s mother) were separated. They reunited, and within four weeks, his ex-girlfriend informed him that she was pregnant. If Broadwell had doubts during that time, he could have asked his ex-girlfriend to undergo a prenatal paternity test or have had a DNA testing sample collected at the time of Joshua’s birth. Paternity test results could have been returned to them within days of Joshua’s birth.

Beta Genetics offers paternity DNA testing services through prenatal or buccal swab sample collection. This means that you can test the paternity of your child as early as the tenth week of pregnancy. Contact one of our knowledgeable and caring DNA consultants today at 1-800-798-3810 to learn more.

In a recent case in South Africa, a woman discovered that for a DNA paternity test, her child’s alleged father switched his own DNA sample with a DNA sample from his girlfriend to ensure he was excluded as the child’s biological father. Although the test initially excluded him as the biological father, the laboratory recognized a problem with the sample and retested. The retested alleged father proved to be the biological father.

To catch such sample mix-ups, the laboratory at Beta Genetics tests the amelogenin locus of each sample. This DNA marker identifies the gender of the person’s submitting the sample. By analyzing the amelogenin locus, the lab may be alerted of situations of sample swaps by people of different genders. This also ensures that the lab is able to identify which sample belongs to which tested party if they are mislabeled or mixed up by the client. This means that if you were a woman participating in a paternity test with your son and his alleged father, the laboratory would expect two male samples and one female sample. If the laboratory received two female samples and one male sample, it would mean that the alleged father’s DNA was actually from a woman, not from him, assuming that your son’s DNA was correctly collected.

By testing the amelogenin locus, Beta is using one more safeguard to ensure accurate paternity test results.