Noninvasive prenatal paternity determination using microhaplotypes: a pilot study

• Main Authors: Jaqueline Yu Ting Wang (Author), Martin R. Whittle (Author), Renato David Puga (Author), Anatoly Yambartsev (Author), André Fujita (Author), Helder I. Nakaya (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Abstract Background The use of noninvasive techniques to determine paternity prenatally is increasing because it reduces the risks associated with invasive procedures. Current methods, based on SNPs, use the analysis of at least 148 markers, on average. Methods To reduce the number of regions, we us...