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When an alleged father refuses to cooperate in Paternity DNA testing, or the child in question is older, and you don’t want them to know that their paternity is in question, a Secret DNA test can help.  However, the secret DNA test can not be legal, i.e., the results of any such testing cannot be used in a court of law or for any formal government purposes such as child support, social security claims, immigration, etc.  The secret DNA testing is equivalent to the peace-of-mind or home DNA test where participants simply need to know for personal knowledge and do not need a document for court; they may or may not collect the samples themselves and / or had access to the collected samples; instead they simply obtain an article / item used by the person or persons they want to test.  It is exactly what the name implies . . . secret . . . expressly for the knowledge of the person requesting the test.  There are three scenarios in which the secret DNA testing may be employed:

First Scenario:  An item from the alleged father, is obtained in secret and this item is tested for DNA. A control swab is also submitted for the child.

Second Scenario:  An item used by the child is obtained in secret and this item is submitted for DNA testing. A control swab is also submitted for the father.

Third Scenario:   A secret item is submitted for both the child and the alleged father.

There are many types of articles / items which may be submitted for DNA testing and profiling, however, the lab can never guarantee whether or not the article / item submitted will have sufficient DNA to create a profile and must do an initial scan.  If you ask, most labs will do what is known as a preliminary scan of the article and inform you whether or not they found enough DNA to create a profile before moving to comparison with the control sample.  It is always better to let the lab know at the time of submitting the case whether you want to be informed about the “article / item” profile before they move on to comparing with the control sample.  If sufficient DNA is not found on the article / item submitted, then there is no need to proceed on to comparison with a control sample.  Also, you can save a few dollars by doing it this way, however, time is lost, i.e. if you need to have results back speedily then the lab will have to wait until you contact them in order to give them permission to proceed to the second stage: comparison of the two profiles.  You decide which is best for your situation, and how you wish to proceed or not proceed.

To find out what articles / items can be submitted for testing, simply call the lab.  They will provide you with a full listing of what articles / items may be submitted for DNA testing as well as let you know what the cost of the initial scan of a submitted article / item would be.

Many divorces in the U.S. are the direct results of sexual infidelity by one or both people in a relationship.  The frequency of marital infidelity vary widely, but experts estimates that some 60 percent of husbands and nearly 40 percent of wives have been unfaithful at some point during their marriage.  No one sex has a monopoly on infidelity!

Although stains on female undergarments could be attributable to urine, urinary tract infection, blood, feces or natural vaginal excretions related to menstrual cycle, ovulation, or vaginal infection; some stains on female undergarments could possibly indicate sexual infidelity.  Semen can be deposited on undergarments, panties, bed sheets, clothing upholstered furniture or other surfaces.  For up to 5 days after the sexual act, sperm cells can live in the vagina.  Whether on male undergarment or female undergarment, forensic analysis of suspicious stains would be necessary to determine the origin of suspicious stains.

A Forensic lab would need to analyze any suspicious stains in two stages: screening and DNA analysis.  A Forensic Analyst screens the suspicious stain using a battery of techniques to determine whether there is semen present.  If no evidence of semen is present, on undergarments, or sample presented, then there is no physical evidence of infidelity and, therefore, continued testing is unnecessary.

If the stain is identified as semen, then DNA analysis of  the stain and a reference swab sample from the partner, male or female,  is conducted to determine whether the semen came from the partner or some other unknown person. Stains that are the results of sexual activity are often a mixture of both partners doing the act, male and female DNA or male and male DNA.  Epithelial cells from the vaginal wall, mouth or skin comprises the female DNA.  Suspicious stains are cell typed using differential extraction which takes advantage of each cell’s unique type.  DNA profiles are generated from each extracted stain as well as from the reference sample for the male and / or female.  If the profile from the partner’s sample does not match the DNA from the stain samples presented, then some other man or woman created the stains

Likewise, stains on male undergarments could be an indicator of sexual infidelity with either male or female.  As well staining on male undergarments may be caused by urine, urinary tract infection, feces or semen.  The same type of analyses would need to be done with the known partner’s reference swab to determine whether the partner caused the tested stains.

Garments and or other samples should be stored at room temperature, and sent to the lab in paper bags or envelopes.  Never use plastic bags nor should you refrigerate the sample item.  The partner’s reference should be collected from the cheeks of the mouth using sterile swabs and sent to the lab in its own paper container.

DNA identification is quickly becoming a crime solving tool.  Law enforcement agencies have created a database of criminal offenders which they use to link criminals and suspects to unsolved crimes.  All fifty U.S. states have passed laws which requires DNA profiling of some offenders.  And law enforcement officials want to compile DNA profiles of everyone who is arrested.  At the same time, defense attorneys are using DNA profile to challenge old convictions.  With the advent of DNA testing, many, many former death row inmates and inmates charged with crimes such as rape or molestation have been freed using DNA technology.  DNA evidence speaks for itself.  DNA profiling also referred to as genetic fingerprinting evolved from a questionable forensic innovation to a powerful and widely accepted tool for identification in criminal investigations and prosecutions.  DNA profiling was used in many cases in the U.S. to exonerate former defendants who were wrongfully convicted for crimes they never committed.  DNA evidence is one of the most accurate technology of this century having the remarkable ability to exonerate innocent people while at the same time convict the guilty.  DNA analysis is also being used on plants and animals, and is being touted as the greatest advancement in forensic science to date.

Employers and insurance companies could use this technology to uncover an employee’s predisposition to disease and use the information to exclude that person from employment or insurance coverage.  The same biological sample used for DNA paternity analysis can likewise be used for other biological analysis of that person.

Because DNA is the building block from which all living things develop, variations in this sequence allow forensic DNA analysts to differentiate one person from another and one animal from another.  In 1999, a jury convicted two people of harboring a vicious animal after the couple’s pit bull mauled their 74-year-old neighbor.  Canine DNA extracted from saliva samples on the victim’s clothing matched the genetic profile of the accused couple’s dog.

Likewise, more and more people are requesting infidelity DNA testing which falls under the forensic DNA testing umbrella, of various items, from condoms to clothing to samples cut from items too large to send in to a lab for analysis.  One only need call our labs to ensure that their unusual item can be tested.  Analysis is fast and accurate, and if a comparison sample is sent in to our lab, we can tell whether the profile from the article or item of clothing matches the profile of the comparison sample  On a recent intake call with a client she told us: “I don’t get mad, I use DNA testing”.

Wan’t answers, but need the truth? Want justice, but need proof?  DNA testing provide them all.  Search no more, a simple paternity test takes the worry or guessing as to who is or isn’t the father of a particular child out of the equasion.  The cost of DNA testing has become very affordable and testing readily accessible to nearly everyone.  No Longer does one have to wonder or worry about their situation.  A simple telephone call can get the ball rolling and with two to three days of making the initial telephone call, an answer is available.  One can seek the legal paternity test where the results are admissible in court or the home test (except New York State residents) where they collect their own samples and send it into our lab for testing.  Thus you can take the guessing out of the equasion.  Paternity testing has Also, more and more areas of law are turning to DNA testing for accurate answers.  

Ever heard of the Innocence Project?  It has and continue to use DNA testing to get wrongly convicted people free and out of incarceration.  So far a great number of poeple have been exonerated using DNA testing.  DNA testing may not only be used to learn who fathered a child, forensics DNA testing can be used to determine whether an accused person really was at the scene of a crime he or she is accused of committing. 

Even the fidelity of many marriages is being proven or disproven with DNA testing through the use of the infidelity DNA test one can positively establish whether or not certain stains were made by them or others.  Of course tone must provide their own sample for profiling and comparison with the profile of an identified stain.  Many people have sent in very unusual articles from condoms to bedsheets to personal article of clothing for testing.  Although these are not the only items that may be tested, one would simply need to contact our offices to establish whether or not their articles may be tested. We provide a full range of DNA testings for very many nearly any area you may need, and a staff of very knowledgeable case managers to assist you seventeen hours per day.