Tests to identify someone's parents, including tests by bloodtype and DNA

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The first DNA fingerprint. The first three lanes contain DNA from a woman, her mother and her father respectively. Lanes 4 - 11 contain DNA from assorted other species including mouse, baboon, lemur, cow, grey seal and tobacco (last lane). The DNA probe used in this experiment detected tandomly repeated short stretches of DNA called minisatellites whose length varies between individuals.

An early DNA fingerprint showing DNA patterns from a mother (lanes 2 and 8) and her four children (adjacent lanes to the right). Lane 1 is an unrelated person. The two sets of lanes show the fingerprints reveled with two different probes that detect different types of repeated sequences.

A paternity suit: in a courtroom, a judge, a guilty looking woman, an enraged wife, and the supposed father. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.

People with DNA fingerprints - artwork

De l'impuissance sexuelle en matière de désaveu de paternité : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 17 juillet 1901 / par E. Soubeiran.

Practical applications of heredity / by Paul Popenoe.

Les empreintes génétiques : verité scientifique et droit de la filiation comparaison internationale.

Blood will tell : the role of science and culture in twentieth-century paternity disputes / Shari Rudavsky.

Vérité scientifique, vérité psychique et droit de la filiation / sous la direction de Lucette Khaïat.

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Paternity

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De l'impuissance sexuelle en matière de désaveu de paternité : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 17 juillet 1901 / par E. Soubeiran.

Practical applications of heredity / by Paul Popenoe.

Les empreintes génétiques : verité scientifique et droit de la filiation comparaison internationale.

Blood will tell : the role of science and culture in twentieth-century paternity disputes / Shari Rudavsky.

Vérité scientifique, vérité psychique et droit de la filiation / sous la direction de Lucette Khaïat.

Paternity

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Images referencing Paternity

Works from the collections

De l'impuissance sexuelle en matière de désaveu de paternité : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 17 juillet 1901 / par E. Soubeiran.

Practical applications of heredity / by Paul Popenoe.

Les empreintes génétiques : verité scientifique et droit de la filiation comparaison internationale.

Blood will tell : the role of science and culture in twentieth-century paternity disputes / Shari Rudavsky.

Vérité scientifique, vérité psychique et droit de la filiation / sous la direction de Lucette Khaïat.

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