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下床新技术，$30叫你知道儿子是不是你的了。
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Identigene offers off-the-shelf DNA paternity test
MORE COSTLY KIT WOULD BE NEEDED IN LEGAL DISPUTES
By Mike Antonucci
Mercury News
Article Launched: 04/04/2008 02:21:25 AM PDT
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Stores already are putting up their gift displays for Mother's Day. And consumers have turned their fashion attention to the latest in spring and summer wear.
Now you can add a highly personal item to the list of products generating retail buzz: the first off-the-shelf paternity testing kit.
Identigene, a business unit of the Sorenson Genomics laboratory in Salt Lake City, caught the media's attention nationally when it recently announced the DNA Paternity Test Collection Kit is available in 4,363 Rite Aid stores in 30 states, including California, and the District of Columbia. The kit costs $30 or less, but there's an additional $119 charge for the lab processing of the DNA samples (which are collected by cheek swabs).
Reaction has ranged from curiosity about consumer demand to concerns about the overall amount of self-administered DNA testing - for a variety of purposes - that's growing in use. Companies already sell various tests online, including paternity kits, which Identigene began selling through the Internet more than 10 years ago.
Staff members at the Genetics and Public Policy Center of John Hopkins University track developments in "direct-to-consumer genetic testing" without judgment on the merit of people's interest, said Gail Javitt, the law and policy director.
But from a public policy standpoint, she added, the key issues for consumers considering any DNA testing are "why are they taking the test, what are they going to do with
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the information and who else is going to have access to the information? It's information that certainly has profound implications."
Doug Fogg, chief operating officer of Identigene, said the anecdotal reasons for people buying the paternity kit vary widely.
When Fogg took calls on a radio talk show, for example, a woman told him she was concerned about a remark she had overheard as a child, when her uncle was referred to as her biological father. The comment had been made by her mother, now deceased, and Fogg said the uncle - the brother of her "father" - cooperated in using Identigene's test to prove he indeed was her biological parent.
Fogg said the best data he has found indicates that about 500,000 paternity tests are performed annually by accredited U.S. labs. Identigene is projecting that its off-the-shelf kit, which the company expects to place in additional retail chains, will lead over the rest of the year to 50,000 requests for processing results.
The strong level of demand is not directly related to legal disputes involving paternity issues because the self-administered kit is not valid by legal standards, as Identigene readily acknowledges.
For a test with the best chance of holding up in court, Identigene charges an additional $200 to arrange for a "disinterested third-party," instead of the test participants, to administer the cheek swabs, double-check the identities and consent of the parties participating and secure the package being sent for lab processing.
But Identigene says a self-administered test, when conducted properly, routinely produces results with a 99.99 percent probability of accuracy. The participation of the child and the possible father is required; participation by the mother improves the statistical strength of the results.
Some questions have been raised about people using the swabs to take DNA samples surreptitiously - by, say, rubbing them on a possible father's toothbrush or attempting to swab inside someone's cheek while they're sleeping. But Identigene says its quality controls generally expose any failure to administer the test as designed.
The Identigene paternity test also is exactly as billed - a test to establish biological fatherhood. A different test kit would be needed to establish whether a woman was a child's biological mother.
Rite Aid has declined to discuss almost any aspect of the paternity kit, except to say through a spokeswoman that the chain says it has a track record of being first in the marketplace with "unique health care products."
The Identigene test was test marketed through Rite Aid stores in California, Oregon and Washington late last year - plus the chain of Meijer stores in five Midwest states - before the national rollout at the end of March.
The caution most frequently raised about the paternity test focuses on whether people are prepared for the emotional impact of the results.
"I suspect that this sort of information, and certain answers in particular, would best be handled in a setting of family counseling," said Jesse Reynolds, project director on biotechnology accountability at the Center for Genetics and Society in Oakland.
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