Paternity
Testing:
Full Service Paternity Testing
Since 1990, Fairfax Identity Laboratories
has been at the forefront of DNA profiling techniques
and innovations. As a major division of Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. (CBI), the largest facility of its kind in
the world, Fairfax Identity Laboratories shares 100,000
square feet of laboratory and clinical space and provides
services to attorneys, forensics laboratories, child
support agencies, physicians, and patients throughout
the United States and the world. Fairfax Identity Laboratories
successfully evaluates approximately 50,000 samples each
year. Our unique affiliation with CBI offers our clients
an additional benefit of over a decade of experience
in providing the latest in innovative genetic services
including one of the world's largest programs in prenatal
diagnostics. Our Institute's prenatal diagnostics experience
allows us to routinely and accurately identify and separate
fetal tissue from maternal tissue in prenatal samples
and products of conception.
Highly Informative Testing
Fairfax Identity Laboratories' rigorous
standards guarantee the credible evidence our clients
demand. Following strict chain of custody procedures,
Fairfax Identity Laboratories uses a minimum of five
highly polymorphic VNTR loci to analyze forensic cases
providing an exclusion on a minimum paternity index of
10,000 and a probability of paternity of 99.9% or greater.
Polymerase Chain Reaction based dot blot (HLA DQA1 and
polymarker) and long tandem repeat (LTR) and short tandem
repeat (STR) techniques can also be performed on small
or degraded samples. Forensic paternity evaluation reports
are admissible in courts of law and may be accompanied
by our expert witness service.
Our Commitment to Customer Service
makes it Easy for You
One phone call to 1-800-482-3025 is
all it takes to coordinate an entire case. Our laboratory
is open seven days a week. Based on our vast experience
working with prenatal specimens, products of conception,
and autopsy specimens, we are able to assist in all aspects
of specimen collection and shipping. We will help you
ensure that specimens will be collected using proper
procedures to guarantee chain of custody and specimen
integrity. Samples can be collected and transported from
throughout the United States and other countries to our
facilities just outside of Washington, DC. A highly trained
forensic analyst will receive the specimens and conduct
testing according to well-validated procedures and protocols.
Forensic Paternity results will be provided in approximately
4 weeks. Urgent cases can be processed more quickly.
We Continue to Provide our Clients
with the
Highest Quality and Standards in the Industry
Our commitment to quality ensures that
you will be provided with accurate and reliable results.
Fairfax Identity Laboratories has proven time and time
again that we meet or exceed the industry standards in
all technical and administrative areas of the laboratory.
Fairfax Identity Laboratories is accredited by the American
Association of Bloodbanks for paternity testing, licensed
by the New York State Department of Health for DNA based
paternity testing, licensed by CLIA for interstate transport
of clinical specimens, and is certified by the National
Forensic Science Technology Center (NFSTC) to be in compliance
with the relevant quality standards of the DNA Advisory
Board and ASCLD/LAB |
