Adoption DNA Testing

The professional staff at Genetica DNA Laboratories is highly trained, and has many years of experience in working with adoption attorneys, adoption organizations, government organizations, and private individuals involved in adoptions. We conduct all aspects of adoption DNA testing and release of adoption DNA test results in accordance with strict confidentiality guidelines. Our staff has years of experience in confidential information administration in cases of adoption.

Our experienced laboratory professionals have developed automated and streamlined laboratory DNA testing processes that allow us to provide you with the quickest DNA testing turnaround time in the country. After we receive the samples in the laboratory, the paternity results of the GENETICA DNA Test™ are typically available within 48 hours. Additionally, expedited , 24 hour DNA test results are also available in adoption cases.

DNA family relationship testing has an important role in the adoption process. The benefits of DNA testing and the reasons to consider DNA testing in adoption cases are illustrated in the below described situations.

A woman routinely receives documentation of her biological maternity through the hospital medical records where she gives birth to the child. A man may receive his documentation of paternity through a DNA paternity test. Adoptive families, adoption attorneys, and some states often require and/or request DNA parentage testing to ensure that both true biological parents of the child knowingly relinquish their parental rights, thus protecting the child and the adoptive family from legal complications and disruption of family life in the future. Additionally, DNA parentage testing at the time of adoption provides the child and the adoptive family with important medical and genetic history information.

DNA parentage tests are often used for genetic identification and verification of a child carried by a gestational surrogate mother. Such testing is done to disprove biological relationship between the child and the surrogate mother, and to prove that the individuals who donated sperm and/or eggs towards the creation of the child are actually the true biological parents of the conceived child.

Similarly, DNA parentage tests are often used for genetic identification of a child conceived by an in vitro fertilization to verify that the child is the biological child of the intended in vitro fertilization sperm and/or egg donors.

DNA family relationship testing serves as one of the most important tools in reunification of biological family members who have been separated through adoption. DNA testing provides the most conclusive way for correct identification of biological parents, grandparents, and siblings. DNA family reconstructions and DNA studies of maternal and paternal lineages can also provide valuable genetic family information.

Genetica DNA Laboratories provides an extensive network of specimen collection sites domestically throughout the United States, and we have numerous affiliations with laboratories worldwide. We make the process of specimen collections convenient for everyone involved by handling all of the arrangements. Specimen collection facilities follow strict chain of custody documentation for client identification, specimen collection, and specimen shipment to ensure Adoption DNA test results are legally admissible by all courts and government agencies. Genetica DNA Laboratories is accredited by the aaBB (formally the American Association of Blood Banks), the College of American Pathologists (CAP), The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), the Forensic Quality Services-International (FQS-I, ISO/IEC 17025), and the United States Department of Health and Human Services issued Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA).

Genetica DNA Laboratories is one of the largest and most experienced private DNA testing laboratories in the United States. We have performed tens of thousands of DNA family relationship tests throughout the world. Our Adoption DNA testing experts have the extensive training and experience to correctly diagnose the most complicated family relationship situations. The professional staff at Genetica is highly trained and has many years of experience in working with adoption attorneys, adoption organizations, government organizations, and private individuals involved in adoptions .

Genetica DNA Laboratories makes every effort to make DNA family relationship testing as inexpensive as possible.