The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island, is a smallest state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area.
If the DNA patterns between mother, child, and the alleged father match on every DNA probe, the likelihood of paternity is 99.9 percent. To conduct DNA testing, either a blood test known as Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) or a procedure called a Buccal scrap is used.
With DNA paternity testing it is possible to 100% exclude someone as the biological father. However, the only way to produce a 100% positive result, would be to test the entire genome of an individual-all of their DNA. DNA paternity tests use a standardised sample of DNA-up to 15 DNA markers-to predict the probability of paternity. These probabilities are usually very high-as high as 99.9999%. This means that, for an alleged father who is not excluded, the paternity report is 99.9999% confident that he is the biological father.