This post is related to Amory Cannon’s guest blog about DNA testing that posted a few months back.

Patti asks: Why wouldn’t a lab do DNA testing?

Jordyn says:

Labs specialize just like doctors do– in a sense. All labs can’t do all things. Even a hospital based medical lab doesn’t test for ALL medical diseases. Some, very specialized tests, can and do go to big research centers (like the Mayo clinic.)

It just isn’t financially reasonable for each lab to do all types of testing. For instance, a hospital based lab isn’t going to do forensics testing. In fact, I’ve not been part of a hospital that did paternity testing. If even collected, these would be referred to a lab that specialized in DNA testing.