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The problem would not loom so large if non-paternity were rare.
Who’s Your Daddy? 2007
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Even with a low non-paternity rate, the odds increase with each successive generation.
Who’s Your Daddy? 2007
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Many efforts to trace male ancestry using DNA terminate at what geneticists delicately call a “non-paternity event.”
Who’s Your Daddy? 2007
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Given an average non-paternity rate of 5 percent, the chance of such an event occurring over 10 generations exceeds 40 percent.
Who’s Your Daddy? 2007
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The problem would not loom so large if non-paternity were rare.
Who’s Your Daddy? 2007
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But other reputed non-paternity rates are higher than the canonical numbers.
Who’s Your Daddy? 2007
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The non-paternity rate for a representative sample of its father-son pairs is less than 2 percent.
Who’s Your Daddy? 2007
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It concluded that the rate of “non-paternity” averages about 4 percent, though it differs along cultural and geographical borders.
Who's Your Daddy? 2009
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Even with a low non-paternity rate, the odds increase with each successive generation.
Who’s Your Daddy? 2007
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Given an average non-paternity rate of 5 percent, the chance of such an event occurring over 10 generations exceeds 40 percent.
Who’s Your Daddy? 2007
qroqqa commented on the word non-paternity
Where your mother is married to a man who thinks he is your father but who isn't; not to be confused with illegitimacy, where your mother isn't married to anyone.
February 12, 2009