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Paternity testing

Known as: Paternities, Paternity, paternity test 
Establishing the father relationship of a man and a child.
National Institutes of Health

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Review
2008
Review
2008
Parental investment, sexual selection and sex ratios
Conventional sex roles imply caring females and competitive males. The evolution of sex role divergence is widely attributed to… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Revising how the computer program cervus accommodates genotyping error increases success in paternity assignment
Genotypes are frequently used to identify parentage. Such analysis is notoriously vulnerable to genotyping error, and there is… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Strong Association of De Novo Copy Number Mutations with Autism
We tested the hypothesis that de novo copy number variation (CNV) is associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). We… 
Review
2004
Review
2004
Microsatellite null alleles in parentage analysis
Highly polymorphic microsatellite markers are widely employed in population genetic analyses (eg, of biological parentage and… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Extra pair paternity in birds: a review of interspecific variation and adaptive function
The application of molecular genetic techniques has revolutionized our view of avian mating systems. Contrary to prior… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Why do females mate multiply? A review of the genetic benefits
The aim of this review is to consider the potential benefits that females may gain from mating more than once in a single… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Statistical confidence for likelihood‐based paternity inference in natural populations
Paternity inference using highly polymorphic codominant markers is becoming common in the study of natural populations. However… 
Review
1997
Review
1997
The Y chromosome in forensic analysis and paternity testing
Abstract The male specificity of the human Y chromosome makes it potentially useful in forensic studies and paternity testing… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Sexual strategies theory: an evolutionary perspective on human mating.
This article proposes a contextual-evolutionary theory of human mating strategies. Both men and women are hypothesized to have… 
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
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