The required participants of a maternity test are the child and the alleged mother. If he’s available, the child’s father is also encouraged to participate. By submitting a DNA sample, the father assists the testing process—the laboratory can eliminate his contribution to the child’s genetic profile and focus on whether the child inherited any DNA from the alleged mother.
If the child’s father is unavailable for testing, we can still perform an
accurate
and conclusive maternity test. We will need to perform extended testing and analysis to obtain conclusive results, but we will do this at no extra charge.