Maternity Testing Defined
A mother and child who are reunited after years of separation (through adoption, for example) may seek maternity testing to confirm their biological relatedness.
Maternity testing works in much the same way as paternity testing. Buccal swab samples are collected from the alleged mother and the child (and sometimes the father, if he is available). The samples are used to generate a DNA profile for each tested party, and the profiles are compared to see if they have the expected amount of DNA markers in common. A biologically related mother and child will share at least half of the same DNA markers.
A maternity test can produce one of two results: 99.99% (or higher) or 0%.
- A 99.99% (or higher) Probability of Maternity indicates that the alleged mother is the biological mother of the child.
- A 0% Probability of Maternity indicates that the alleged mother is not the biological mother of the child.
For more information about how Beta Paternity can help answer questions of maternity, please visit our Maternity Testing page.
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