Casuistic: The Use of DNA-Fingerprinting in Cases of Affiliation Without Mother

Abstract

We report a case of affiliation which can be assigned to the problem area of the so called deficiency cases. The mother and the putative father both were dead. For the examinations the putative father was exhumed after a period of four weeks. The mother had died years earlier, exhumation seemed to be pointless. The following samples were taken from the putative father’s corpse: heart blood, muscle, brain and bone marrow. The conventional serological typing resulted in an isolated exclusion ( AcP system). The use of the hypervariable minisatellite probe MZ 1.3. gave no satisfying result (bandsharing: about 30 %). Only the use of single locus probes confirmed the exclusion from paternity.