A test of allelic independence based on distributions of allele size differences at microsatellite loci.

doi:10.1159/000154394

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A test of allelic independence based on distributions of allele size differences at microsatellite loci.

Human heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Stivers D N, Chakraborty R

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Thousands of polymorphic microsatellite loci are now mapped in the human genome, most of which exhibit a large number of segregating alleles. For forensic, evolutionary and gene mapping applications, it is important to establish intralocus allelic independence at these loci. We develop a test for...

Topics

Alleles
Female
Humans
Male
Microsatellite Repeats
Models, Genetic
Racial Groups
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid

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