DNA Testing and Adoption: An Interview

If you are interested in how DNA testing can provide answers to the many questions that come up in situations touched by adoption, you’ll want to tune in to an interview with DDC’s chief science officer, Dr. Michael Baird, conducted by Donna Montalbano of Adoption Discussions, a radio program broadcast by WOON in Rhode Island, also available via internet streaming.

Topic: The value of DNA testing in domestic and foreign adoption, reunification, and paternity

When: Friday, June 8, 2012 at 3:05 pm

Where: WOON 1240 AM (Rhode Island)

*Update: Download the episode using this MP3 link (right-click and select “Save Target As” [Windows]).

The interview discusses how DNA can help people find their biological relatives and other information about their ancestry. Paternity/maternity testing, mitochondrial testing, Y chromosomal testing, and DNA Origins testing will also be discussed.

For more information about adoption DNA testing, please visit DDC’s Adoption DNA Services section.