PMID- 22688803
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120924
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1936-4776 (Electronic)
IS  - 1045-6767 (Linking)
VI  - 23
IP  - 2
DP  - 2012 Jun
TI  - Estimating the prevalence of nonpaternity in Germany.
PG  - 208-17
LID - 10.1007/s12110-012-9143-y [doi]
AB  - The prevalence of nonpaternity in human societies is difficult to establish. To 
      obtain a current and fairly unbiased estimate of the nonpaternity rate in 
      Germany, we analysed a dataset consisting of 971 children and their parents in 
      whom human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing had been carried out in the context of 
      bone marrow transplantation. In this sample, nine exclusions (0.93%) could be 
      identified on the basis of more than 300 HLA-haplotypes defined by four HLA 
      genes. Given this number of exclusions, a maximum likelihood estimate of the 
      nonpaternity rate in the population of 0.94% was obtained with asymptotic 95% 
      confidence limits of 0.33% and 1.55%, respectively. This result is in accordance 
      with recent surveys as well as findings from Switzerland for a comparable sample, 
      and it suggests that earlier estimates of the nonpaternity rate which were often 
      in excess of 10% may have been largely exaggerated.
FAU - Wolf, Michael
AU  - Wolf M
AD  - Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-University of Duesseldorf, 
      Germany. michael.wolf@uni-duesseldorf.de
FAU - Musch, Jochen
AU  - Musch J
FAU - Enczmann, Juergen
AU  - Enczmann J
FAU - Fischer, Johannes
AU  - Fischer J
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Hum Nat
JT  - Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.)
JID - 9010063
RN  - 0 (HLA Antigens)
SB  - IM
MH  - Bone Marrow Transplantation/immunology
MH  - Female
MH  - Germany
MH  - HLA Antigens/*genetics
MH  - Histocompatibility Testing
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Paternity
MH  - Prevalence
EDAT- 2012/06/13 06:00
MHDA- 2012/09/25 06:00
CRDT- 2012/06/13 06:00
PHST- 2012/06/13 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/06/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/09/25 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s12110-012-9143-y [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Hum Nat. 2012 Jun;23(2):208-17. doi: 10.1007/s12110-012-9143-y.