Article
Ethnic differentiation at VNTR loci, with special reference to forensic applications.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 1992
Devlin B, Risch N
Abstract excerpt
Allele-rich VNTR loci provide valuable information for forensic inference. Interpretation of this information is complicated by measurement error, which renders discrete alleles difficult to distinguish. Two methods have been used to circumvent this difficulty--i.e., binning methods and direct evaluation of allele frequencies, the latter achieved by modeling the data as a mixture distribution. We use this...
Topics
- Alleles
- Black People
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2
- Forensic Medicine
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Markers
- Hispanic or Latino
- Humans
- Mathematics
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid