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Judge orders new DNA testing, appoints genetics expert to resolve Myatt estate heirship
Summary
A chancery judge ordered expanded DNA testing and authorized Vanderbilt genetics professor Dr. Jennifer E. Belo to analyze results after a private lab's avuncular test produced an 8.5% probability of relatedness in a dispute over whether Catherine Rundle is an heir to the late Richard Omar Myatt.
Dixon County Chancery Judge David D. Wolfe on Tuesday ordered additional, denser DNA testing and authorized a genetics expert to analyze results to resolve whether Catherine Jean Myatt Rundle is a biological heir of the late Richard Omar Myatt and therefore entitled to share in his estate.
The issue came after test results from DDC Diagnostic Center showed a combined relatedness index of 0.1012 and reported an 8.5% probability of an avuncular (aunt/uncle-to-niece/nephew) relationship and a 91.5% probability of no relationship. Dr. Jennifer Elizabeth Belo, director of the Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, testified the company's report and website place an 8.5% value below the lab's threshold for supporting relatedness and called the result effectively exclusionary for the avuncular relationship under that lab's own…
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