Abstract
The English Speaking Working Group (ESWG) of the International Society for Forensic
Genetics (ISFG) offers an annual Paternity Testing Workshop open to all members of
the group. Blood samples, a questionnaire and a paper challenge are sent to the participants.
Here, we present the results of the 2002–2008 Paternity Testing Workshops with the
objective to evaluate the uniformity of DNA-profiling and conclusions of the participating
laboratories as well as to clarify tendencies in typing strategies and biostatistical
evaluations of the laboratories. The numbers of participating laboratories increased
from 46 in 2002 to 68 in 2008. The results showed an increasing degree of concordance
concerning methods and DNA systems used and a high degree of uniformity in typing
results with discrepancies in 0.1 and 0.3 % of all submitted PCR-based results. The
paper challenges showed uniformity in the calculation of the weight of evidence for
simple cases with straight-forward genetic constellations. However, a high degree
of variation existed in complex scenarios with rare genetic constellations such as
genetic inconsistencies/possible silent alleles, rare alleles and haplotypes.
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Publication history
Published online: March 05, 2009
Accepted:
January 22,
2009
Received in revised form:
December 23,
2008
Received:
September 23,
2008
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© 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
