Three paternity tests cases were found with a single locus mismatch at the locus D5S818 with PowerPlex®21 PCR Amplification Kit (Promega).
The single locus mismatch is due to the existence of a silent allele 12 in all the three families.
The silent allele 12 is due to a point mutation that changed cytosine to adenine at 90 nucleotides upstream from the 5′ end of the AGAT repeat sequences.