Citation

Reshef A, Brauner P, Shpitzen M, Gallili N, Marbach A, Motro U, Shmueli E, Meiner V. J. Forensic Sci. 1999; 44(5): 1065-1068.

Affiliation

Forensic Biology Laboratory, Israel Police National Headquarters, Jerusalem, Israel.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, American Society for Testing and Materials, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10486960

Abstract

Chorionic villus sampling (CVS), prior to pregnancy termination (pre-termination CVS), is suggested as a tool for forensic paternity testing. Unlike the abortion material, which consists of ruptured tissues of fetal and maternal origin, extra-embryonic membranes obtained through CVS can provide an uncontaminated source of fetal tissue for genotyping. We discuss the possibility of confined placental mosaicism (CPM) and its implications on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based analyses of short tandem repeats (STRs) and the D1S80 loci.

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