DNA Paternity Testing Glossary

A.
AABB
AAFS
Absent Parent
Accrual
Acknowledgment of Parentage/Paternity
Adenine
Adjudication
Administrative Process
Admissible; Admissibility
AFDC "Aid to Families with Dependant Children"
Affidavit
Affidavit of Denial of Paternity
Affidavit of Indigency
AFLP
Agarose
Alleged Father (AF); Putative Father (PT)
Allele
Allele Frequency
AMPFLP
Analytical Gel
Antigen
Arrearages
ASCLD-LAB
ASHG
ASHI
Assignment of Support Rights
Attorney for the Child(ren)
Autorad
Autoradiogram
Autoradiograph
Autoradiography
Band
Bandshift
Bases
Base Pair(ing)
Bayes' Theorem (as applicable to parentage testing)
Best Interest of the Child
Biological Father
Blot
Burden of Proof
C
CAC
CACLD
CAP
Capias
Ceiling Principle
Cell:
Child Support
Child--Guidelines
Child Support Recovery Act (1992)
Chromosome
Cloning
CODIS
Complementarity
Controls
Codominant
COLA
Combined Paternity Index (CPI)
Complainant
Complaint for Support/Custody/Visitation
Complaint to Establish Parentage
Consent Agreement
Contempt of Court, Complaint for
CTS
Custodial Parent
Custody--Legal
Custody--Physical
Cytosine
Default Judgement
Degradation
Diploid
Direct Exclusion
Discovery; Pretrial Discovery
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)
DNA Polymerase
DNA Probe
DNA Profiling or Typing
Dominant
Double Helix
Electrophoresis
Emancipation
Enzymes
Ethidium Bromide (EtBr)
Exclusion
Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS)
Forensic
Forensic-Science
Full Faith and Credit
G
Garnishment; Wage Assignment; Wage Attachment
Gel
Gene
Gene Frequency
Genetic Marker
Genome
Genotype

Guanine
Guardian ad Litem (GAL)
Guidelines (Child Support)
Haploid
Hardy-Weinberg Law
Heredity
Heterozygosity
Heterozygote (heterozygous)
HLA
Homologous
Homozygote (homozygous)
Hybridization
Hypervariable
Inclusion
Indirect Exclusion
Infant
Isotope
Judgment
Judgment, Divorce
Kilobase
Locus (pl. loci)
Long Arm Statute
Linkage Disequilibrium
Marker
Mean Probability of Exclusion
Mediation
Membrane
Microgram
Milliliter
Mitochondria
Molecular Biology
Molecule
Monomorphic Probe
Motion
Multilocus Probe
Mutation
Nanogram
Non-Custodial Parent (NCP)
Notary Public
Nucleotide
Obligate Gene
Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE)
Parens patriease
Parentage Judgment
Paternity Index (Likelihood Ratio)
PCR
Phenotype
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Polymorphic Locus
Population
Population Database
Population Substructure
Polymorphism
Population Genetics
Power of Exclusion (A)
Presumption of Paternity
Primer
Prior Probability (Pr)
Private case
Pro Se; Pro Se Appearance
Probability of Paternity (W)
Probe
Product Rule
Proficiency Tests
Protein
Protocol
Quality Assurance
Quality Control
Random Man
Random Man Not Excluded (RMNE)
Recessive
Red Cell Antigens
Replication
Restriction Enzyme
Restriction Fragment
Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP)
RE Test Gel
RNA Ribonucleic Acid
Scanner
Serology
Service by Publication
Service of Process
Single Locus Probe
Southern Blotting
STR
Support Order
T
Taq DNA Polymerase
Testimony
Thymine
Variable Number of Tandem Repeats (VNRT)
Visitation
Visitation, Grandparent
Voluntary Acknowledgment of Parentage
Wage withholding
Yeld Gel