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Assignment of Paternity in a Judicial Dispute Between Two Neighbor Holstein Dairy Farmers
Fecha
2004-12Registro en:
Liron, Juan Pedro; Ripoli, María Verónica; Peral Garcia, Pilar; Giovambattista, Guillermo; Assignment of Paternity in a Judicial Dispute Between Two Neighbor Holstein Dairy Farmers; Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc; Journal of Forensic Sciences; 49; 1; 12-2004; 96-98
0022-1198
1556-4029
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Liron, Juan Pedro
Ripoli, María Verónica
Peral Garcia, Pilar
Giovambattista, Guillermo
Resumen
DNA profiling was used as evidence to assign paternity in a dispute between two neighbors in a judicial case of undue appropriation of cattle offspring from five alleged Holstein sires. Five offspring were genotyped using ten genetic markers (nine microsatellites and the BOLA-DRB3 locus). The computer program CERVUS was used to estimate the LOD score values and the confidence of paternity assignments. The results presented here show that three out of five paternity cases were assigned at 95% of confidence to a single sire with a LOD score ranging from 2.53 to 3.55. A fourth male was assigned using its D value. Finally, all alleged sires were excluded from the paternity of the fifth offspring, probably due to the existence of an non-sampled male in the studied population. We concluded that the likelihood-based approach, included into CERVUS program, was a powerful tool in cattle kinship analysis when dealing with judicial dispute particularly when the dam's genotype was absent, allowing the assignments of paternity at 95% level of confidence in situations usually used by dairy and beef cattle producers in Argentine (e.g., multi-sire pasture mating).