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mgnv

mgnv Report 29 May 2009 23:49

The article's really about the ethical (and other) problems of disclosure, but:

In the United States and Canada, the prevalence of father-child living kidney donor-recipient pairs with less than a one-haplotype human leukocyte antigen match (i.e., misattributed paternity) is between 1% and 3%,...


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Discovering Misattributed Paternity in Living Kidney Donation: Prevalence, Preference, and Practice

Young, Ann; Kim, Sang Joseph; Gibney, Eric M.; Parikh, Chirag R.; Cuerden, Meaghan S.; Horvat, Lucy D.; Hizo-Abes, Patricia; Garg, Amit X.; for the Donor Nephrectomy Outcomes Research (DONOR) Network

Transplantation. 87(10):1429-1435, May 27, 2009.

doi: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181a4eae5

http://journals.lww.com/transplantjournal/pages/default.aspx

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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 30 May 2009 00:01

I'm surprised it's not higher.

Rose

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I am not related to you and I'm not your husband's first wife!

Victoria

Victoria Report 30 May 2009 00:18



That's really interesting. There was a study done a few years ago by a Professor Sykes [sorry - I don't remember his given name] where he asked for people named Sykes to submit their DNA for testing. Sykes being a name where everyone holding it trace their origins back to one man.

He found that about 3% of people bearing the Sykes name were the result of informal adoptions, illigitimacy [where the child would bear the mother's name] or someone other than Mr Sykes being the father of Mrs Sykes child.

It is possible that the slightly lower percentage in the article mgnv quotes is because some non-fathers actually know the situation and haven't volunteered in the first instance:)

I wonder how this percentage will change in the future given that recent studies claim that according to the mothers concerned, twenty five percent of children are not the progeny of their husbands:(

It will put family trees on a par with fairy tales.

Victoria