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Distinguishing full siblings from half-siblings in limited pedigrees.
Transfusion - 1 Jan 2000
Wenk R E, Chiafari F A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Full siblings were compared with half-siblings to observe how well the two relationships could be distinguished by informative tests. STUDY AND DESIGN METHODS: Parentage analysis ascertained 25 pairs of full siblings and 25 pairs of half-siblings. The pairs were then examined for the sharing of alleles at three independent variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) loci. A sibling index (SI) and a...
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