Paternity testing at the Department of Forensic Medicine of Wroclaw Medical University (Poland)

- The trend of methods led to the amplicons shortening and the DNA amount reduction.
- Exclusions of non-fathers at level of 45% in the first period stabilised below 20%.
- DNA testing enabled the exclusion of all non-fathers and confirmation of paternity.

Evidentiary materials in court cases comprise the testimony of all relevant parties and witnesses, physical and biological evidence, and the stage of child's development at the moment of birth. In this study, an analysis was made of results obtained between 1966 and 2014 from paternity testing capable of providing biological evidence for court cases. During this time, 16,508 opinions were released, with exclusion of paternity in 4182 cases. The analysis of the total percentage of exclusions in individual years over the entire period of 49 years turned out to be very interesting. Initially, there was a high percentage of exclusions, which most likely resulted from women wrongfully accusing men; however, this figure stabilised in the twenty-first century at less than 20%.