Assessing the exclusionary power of paternity tests involving a pair of alleged parents

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The analysis of DNA profiles to resolve matters of disputed paternity is usually concerned with three individuals: the biological mother, the biological child, and the alleged father. Some matters of disputed paternity are only estimated between the child and one alleged parent in the case of deficiencies of the other parent, which is the duo case. However, sometimes analyses of parentage are conducted with regard to a child and a pair of disputed parents (disputed mother and father). During recent years, the number of human parentage analyses involving one pair of disputed parents has dramatically increased in China to guard against the abduction of children and manage the registration of permanent residence to families in which the child was of dubious background (suspected of being born out of birth control or abducted). …