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February 01, 2019

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You can now buy a £5 paternity test from a pharmacy - but do they really work?

UK discount store Home Bargains famously sells a home paternity test kit that costs just £4.99. The kit contains a set of mouth swabs (one for the child, one for the potential father), consent forms, and envelopes used to send the completed kit to a UK testing lab. The company that produces the tests promise to analyse your samples and have your results ready the next working day, using cutting-edge DNA science. According to the Home Bargains website , the testing lab uses "24 markers, giving the most accurate result possible, using up to the minute technology" and the testing technology is "used by TV shows such as The Jeremy Kyle Show and media companies." If that sounds like an outrageously cheap deal, well that's because it is. The £4.99 price tag is merely the cost of the box and its contents—the lab charges an additional processing fee of £99 for doing the actual scientific testing. So the real price you pay is £103.99. It's worth noting th...

What happens when you try to cheat a DNA test

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People are DNA testing their children before they have even been born

A new technique known as ‘non-invasive prenatal DNA testing’ is shaking-up the DNA industry. Every year, thousands of people pay a private company to carry out a paternity test on their child – usually to confirm suspicions about an unfaithful partner, or as evidence to support a child support dispute. And it’s not just fathers that can be tested – give a lab a couple of cheek cell samples and they can test for fathers, mothers, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents or even identical twins! But until recently, one particular kind of DNA test was usually out of the question – a prenatal test . Continue reading the original article...

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