blood-grouping test. A test used in paternity and illegitimacy cases to determine whether a particular man could be the father of a child, examples being the genetic-marker test and the human-leukocyte antigen test. • The test does not establish paternity; rather, it eliminates men who could not be the father. See PATERNITY TEST; GENETIC-MARKER TEST; […]
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human-leukocyte antigen test. A medical process of analyzing the blood sample of a man in a paternity or legitimacy case by comparing certain indicators with the child’s blood. — Abbr. HLA test. See BLOOD-GROUPING TEST. Cf. GENETIC-MARKER TEST. [Cases: Children Out-of-Wedlock 58. C.J.S. Children Out-of-Wedlock §§ 75–76.]
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genetic-marker test. A medical method of testing tissue samples used in paternity and illegitimacy cases to de-termine whether a particular man could be the father of a child. • This test represents a medical advance over blood-grouping tests. It analyzes DNA and is much more precise in assessing the probability of paternity. — Abbr. GMT.
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