Patent Document ID: 20120122701
Application ID: 13335043
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for establishing whether an alleged father is the biological father of a fetus that is gestating in a pregnant mother, the method comprising: obtaining genetic material from the alleged father; obtaining a blood sample from the pregnant mother; making genotypic measurements, at a plurality of polymorphic loci, on the genetic material from the alleged father; obtaining genotypic measurements, at the plurality of polymorphic loci, from the genetic material from the pregnant mother; making genotypic measurements on a mixed sample of DNA originating from the blood sample from the pregnant mother, where the mixed sample of DNA comprises fetal DNA and maternal DNA; determining, on a computer, the probability that the alleged father is the biological father of the fetus gestating in the pregnant mother using the genotypic measurements made from the DNA from the alleged father, the genotypic measurements obtained from the pregnant mother, and the genotypic measurements made on the mixed sample of DNA; and establishing whether the alleged father is the biological father of the fetus using the determined probability that the alleged father is the biological father of the fetus.