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DNA fingerprinting for forensic identification: potential effects on data interpretation of subpopulation heterogeneity and band number variability.

American journal of human genetics - 1 Feb 1990

Cohen J E

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Some methods of statistical analysis of data on DNA fingerprinting suffer serious weaknesses. Unlinked Mendelizing loci that are at linkage equilibrium in subpopulations may be statistically associated, not statistically independent, in the population as a whole if there is heterogeneity in gene frequencies between subpopulations. In the populations where DNA fingerprinting is used for forensic applications, the...

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Alleles
DNA
DNA Probes
Forensic Medicine
Gene Frequency
Homozygote
Humans
Nucleotide Mapping
Probability

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PMID: 2301401
PMCID: PMC1684977

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