Maternity Testing
What relationship does it prove?
Maternity testing allows you to determine whether or not a woman is the biological mother of the child(ren) children in question by comparing the DNA of the possible mother and the child(ren).
Who needs to be tested?
- Possible Mother
- Child
How reliable are the results?
The results will either show:
- The woman tested IS NOT to be the biological mother of the child, OR
- The woman tested IS more than 99.99% certain to be the biological mother of the child*
* Please note that relationship testing can never say that a man is 100% the biological mother of a child because of the amount of genes that are shared within the population.
If a close female relative to the woman tested (i.e. her mother, sister or daughter) is a possible mother of the child then she must also be tested in order to eliminate her from maternity.
Other relationship testing
If you would like to discuss the possibility of performing other relationship tests please contact our Customer Support Advisers on 0844 800 6951 or 0191 233 1414.