Word: mcfield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long after her 19-year-old son was murdered two years ago, Joyce McField of Broadview, Ill., was contacted by a woman who said she was pregnant with his child. McField was inclined to believe her, and when the baby girl was born, she became a doting grandmother. Now and then, however, she wondered if the girl was really her granddaughter. So one day she took a sample of her dead son's blood that the police had kept as evidence and hired a Houston company called Identigene to conduct a DNA paternity test. "I just wanted there...
...McField is one of a rapidly growing number of people who, in the post-O.J., post-Monica world, are taking advantage of the rapidly falling costs of DNA-testing technology to settle lingering paternity questions. And where there's a new science and a growing need, there's sure to be a company that comes along to fill it. In the DNA-testing industry, Identigene...
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