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No excess of homozygosity at loci used for DNA fingerprinting.

Science (New York, N.Y.) - 21 Sept 1990

Devlin B, Risch N, Roeder K

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Variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) loci are extremely valuable for the forensic technique known as DNA fingerprinting because of their hypervariability. Nevertheless, the use of these loci in forensics has been controversial. One criticism of DNA fingerprinting is that the VNTR loci used for the "fingerprints" violate the assumption of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (H-W), making it difficult to calculate the...

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PMID: 2205919
DOI: 10.1126/science.2205919

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