Effect of reference database on frequency estimates of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based DNA profiles.

Article

Effect of reference database on frequency estimates of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based DNA profiles.

Journal of forensic sciences - 1 May 1998

Monson K L, Budowle B

Abstract excerpt

A variety of general, regional, ancestral and ethnic databases is available for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based loci LDLR, GYPA, HBGG, D7S8, Gc, DQA1, and D1S80. Generally, we observed greater differences in frequency estimations of DNA profiles between racial groups than between ethnic...

Topics

Alleles
DNA
Databases, Factual
Ethnicity
Gene Frequency
Genetic Markers
Genetics, Population
Humans
Minisatellite Repeats
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Reference Values

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