OT: DNA test

Sep 10, 2008 5 Replies
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I there a simple (cheap) DNA test for siblings? There are 3 brothers, one is trying to grab the entire estate of the parents, but that one looks and acts much different from the rest of the family. Can a DNA test match siblings without digging up the parents?



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Could be.

Google reported 192,000 hits just now for 'inexpensive dna testing'. (Not counting the ads on the right side of the page).

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Best Regards Tom.

The mitochondrial DNA will be the same in all children from the same mother. The regular DNA will be similar for all related siblings. I have no idea what it costs. Karl

Get a lawyer; a mean one.

I suspect that a DNA test will be irrelevant, if the person in question has been considered a son for long enough that he has reached the age where such things happen.

I think so. Call your local hospital(s) and see which ones do paternity testing. It can probably be done from cheek swabs rather than a tube of blood, but for it to stand up in court it will need to be witnessed and a chain of custody maintained.

Here's the lab we used to deal with many years ago.

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We stopped offering the service at our hospital. Pain in the a** Mother and putative father getting into fights in the waiting room; parents and lawyers harassing the secretaries and phlebotomists. Cost to patients was about $500 back then.

RWL

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