Article
On the statistics of the "genetic fingerprint".
International journal of legal medicine - 1 Jan 1991
Ritter H
Abstract excerpt
In analogy to the polygene determined morphological features, the DNA-fingerprint is also not suitable for statistical processing. Statements about the individuality are merely speculative. Frequencies of genes cannot be found, since it is impossible to determine which combinations of bands belon...
Topics
- Chromosome Banding
- DNA Fingerprinting
- Evaluation Studies as Topic
- Gene Frequency
- Humans
- Models, Statistical
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Reproducibility of Results