Similarity of DNA fingerprints due to chance and relatedness.

doi:10.1159/000154113

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Similarity of DNA fingerprints due to chance and relatedness.

Human heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Li C C, Weeks D E, Chakravarti A

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Given the DNA fingerprints of two individuals with some bands being shared by both individuals, we define a new measure of the degree of similarity between the DNA profiles of two individuals. We use this measure to calculate the expected DNA similarity of two unrelated individuals of a randomly mating population; this similarity is due to chance only. Then, the expected similarity between two related individuals...

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Alleles
DNA Fingerprinting
Family
Humans
Probability

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PMID: 8514326
DOI: 10.1159/000154113

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