Article
Greater differences in forensic DNA profile frequencies estimated from racial groups than from ethnic subgroups.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 1 Jul 1994
Budowle B, Monson K L
Abstract excerpt
A National Research Council (NRC) report asserted that genetic diversity between subgroups within a race is greater than between races. While this is counterintuitive to the basic tenets of human population genetics, the forensic application of statistical estimates of DNA profile frequencies has...
Topics
- Black People
- DNA
- Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific
- Ethnicity
- Forensic Medicine
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Information Systems
- Norway
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Racial Groups
- Spain
- Turkey
- United States
- White People
- Black or African American