Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46b-495

Current with legislation from the 2024 Regular and Special Sessions.

Section 46b-495 - Definitions

As used in sections 40 to 50, inclusive, of this act:

(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.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46b-495

Added by P.A. 21-0015, S. 40 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2021 Regular Session, eff. 1/1/2022.