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.
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