Is there an alternative to expensive DNA or paternity testing?
Fortunately, online DNA laboratories such as dnatesting.com or Identigene have proven themselves as not only a certified, court approved DNA testing lab, but an accurate and inexpensive alternative to standard hospital/physician involved methods. This new process can be done from home – requiring no visits to your physician for blood draw (or other invasive specimen collection methods.) Home DNA testing – my experience. For my review, I purchased a test kit found on the shelf at Walgreen’s for less than $30.00, which included a ‘cheek swab’ for both the parent and child DNA sampling. After swiping the collections swabs, I sent the specimen to the (in this case, we went with Identigene) testing lab in the supplied container for analysis. The cost for the actual analysis was $119.00, which, with the initial kit cost of 29.00 came to a grand total of $148.99 – considerably less than the traditional doctor/lab visit alternative. Also, I was given the option to receive the test results via
