Avuncular Testing
Do you need to confirm a biological relationship between a child and an aunt or uncle to help determine paternity? When a possible father isn’t available for paternity testing, one or more of his siblings can participate instead. There are many reasons for doing an avuncular test and Certainty DNA offers the latest technology and accurate testing to resolve questions about biological sibling relationships.
Why Avuncular Testing?
The most common reason to take an Avuncular test is to confirm a relationship between a child and aunt/uncle. Other reasons to take the test are to confirm medical history, Social Security benefits, inheritance claims, immigration cases, insurance claims
Results are completely confidential, and your private genetic information is never shared with or sold to outside parties.
Frequently Asked Questions
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We cannot test half-siblings of a possible father. It must be a full-sibling relationship in order to obtain the most conclusive results possible.
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Understanding results for an avuncular DNA test is a little tricky, since there can never be a straight “yes or no” answer in relationship testing. Calculations for relationships such as grandparent, avuncular (aunt/uncle), and siblings all involve statistics, and a probability of relationship is given as a percentage in the report:
90% or higher: the relationship is supported by DNA testing
9% – 89%: inconclusive result, and additional parties need to be tested
Below 9%: the relationship is not supported by DNA testing
If a probability of relationship (PRI) of 92% is given for an avuncular test, the result could be understood as: “There is a 92% probability that the persons tested share an avuncular relationship.”