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Paternity Testing Corporation
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PTC must obtain a sample of your DNA in order to perform the paternity test. When you set up your test by calling PTC, we will make a specimen collection appointment for you. We have specimen collection facilities throughout the United States, and we are also able to arrange specimen collections around the world.

If you prefer, the specimens for the tested individuals can be collected at different times and places. It is not unusual for the individuals to be in different states, or even in different countries.  Generally specimens can be collected for each individual at a facility convenient to his or her place of residence.

PTC normally uses buccal swabs to collect your specimen. The buccal swab is similar to a Q-tip, and it is rubbed up and down on the inside of the cheek of your mouth. The swab collects loose cheek cells.

PTC uses swabs because they are less invasive. People generally prefer the swabs, rather than being stuck with a needle to draw blood. Our swabs are gentle. Not all paternity laboratories offer swabs, and some laboratories that do offer swabs charge extra to use them. PTC has always offered swabs for specimen collection, at no extra charge.

Because your DNA is the same throughout your body, the paternity test provides the same accuracy regardless of the type of specimen used. Thus, it makes no difference in the outcome whether the specimen is obtained from cheek swabs or from blood.

Specimens for babies can be collected at any age. If you use swabs for the specimen collection there is no minimum age requirement.

PTC also tests blood specimens whenever that is necessary or desired. There is no extra charge to use blood.

If you would prefer to collect your own specimens in the privacy of your own home, we can send you a buccal swab specimen collection kit with instructions. We do not recommend this approach, because the test would not be usable for court, or for any official purpose such as putting a child on the father's health insurance or establishing entitlement to Social Security benefits. If you took a "home test" and later needed an official paternity test you would be required to pay for the test again. Because Paternity Testing Corporation has no way to know whose specimens we are actually receiving when clients collect their own specimens, we can not issue a regular laboratory report. We issue a letter that gives the results of the test by referring to specimens A (mother), B (child) and C (alleged father), and does not refer to tested persons by name.
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Paternity Testing Corporation
300 Portland St.
Columbia, MO 65201
1-888-837-8323
e-mail:  info@ptclabs.com

 
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