First paternity case resolved by conventional and DNA typing method in Iraq :a case report

In Iraq, DNA Typing Profile has been added to the routine work of disputed paternity cases as a powerful tool of investigation in Forensic in 2007. The old conventional investigation based on blood antigen systems like variable blood groups, HLA Tissue Typing was no more used in such sensitive cases because of the limitation or invariability of loci analyzed. We report here the first case of paternity test done for a trios [Alleged father, mother and child] rebated by two old and new techniques. The alleged father has been excluded from being a biological father according to the mismatch in ABO, MN blood group and 5 genetic markers in DNA profile between the alleged father and son