15 Mar
2001
15 Mar
'01
5:05 p.m.
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Ray Dillinger wrote:
I've heard similar figures from the CDC - when they discover genetic disease, they often do tests to find out which parent it was inherited through - and about the same fraction of the time, they find that kids are no relation to their fathers.
Here's another tidbit ... this time on a page that deals with genetic testing. Their estimates for general population seem to be in the 10% range. at http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctf706.htm: ... In about a third of the welfare cases and 10% of other cases, lab directors say that the father named by the mother turns out not to be the biological parent.... Bear