Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 818 - Connecticut Parentage Act
Section 46b-495. - Genetic testing. Definitions.

As used in sections 46b-495 to 46b-505, inclusive:

(1) “Combined relationship index” means the product of all tested relationship indices.
(2) “Ethnic or racial group” means, for the purpose of genetic testing, a recognized group that a person identifies as the person's ancestry or part of the ancestry or that is identified by other information.
(3) “Hypothesized genetic relationship” means an asserted genetic relationship between a person and a child.
(4) “Probability of parentage” means, for the ethnic or racial group to which a person alleged to be a parent belongs, the probability that a hypothesized genetic relationship is supported, compared to the probability that a genetic relationship is supported between the child and a random person of the ethnic or racial group used in the hypothesized genetic relationship, expressed as a percentage incorporating the combined relationship index and a prior probability.
(5) “Relationship index” means a likelihood ratio that compares the probability of a genetic marker given a hypothesized genetic relationship and the probability of the genetic marker given a genetic relationship between the child and a random person of the ethnic or racial group used in the hypothesized genetic relationship.
(P.A. 21-15, S. 40.)
History: P.A. 21-15 effective January 1, 2022.

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