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36 Jurimetrics J. 337 (1995-1996)
Determination of Both Parents Using DNA Profiling

handle is hein.journals/juraba36 and id is 361 raw text is: DETERMINATION OF BOTH PARENTS USING DNA PROFILING Wing K. Fung, D.M. Wong, and P. Tsui* ABSTRACT: The genetic relationship between a couple whose newborn infant disappeared from a hospital and an abandoned newborn baby was investigated using restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis. Likelihood ratios for different cases of matching of DNA profiles were derived. The proposed methods can be applied more generally to other cases of alleged parenthood. CITATION: Wing K. Fung, D.M. Wong & P. Tsui, Determination of Both Parents Using DNA Profiling, 36 Jurimetrics J. 337-342 (1996). In May 1993, a newborn baby girl disappeared from a local hospital in Hong Kong. Two days later, an abandoned baby of unknown identity was found on a street. Because this baby resembled their older daughter, the parents of the missing baby girl thought the abandoned infant was their missing child. The Government Laboratory of Hong Kong performed DNA profiling tests based on RFLPs at four single-locus variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) using the probes MS1 (for the D1S7 locus), YNH24 (D2S44), pH30 (D4S139) and TBQ7 (D10S28), in conjunction with the restriction enzyme Hae III. DNA fragments found in each of the four probe systems in *Wing K. Fung is lecturer, Department of Statistics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road. D.M. Wong and P. Tsui are chemist and senior chemist, Forensic Science Division, Hong Kong Government Laboratory. They thank the referee for helpful comments. The work of the first author was partly supported by a CRCG grant. SPRING 1996

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