On the statistics of the "genetic fingerprint".
In analogy to the polygene determined morphological features, the DNA-fingerprint is also not suitable for statistical processing. Statements about the individuality are merely speculative. Frequencies of genes cannot be found, since it is impossible to determine which combinations of bands belong to one gene locus. Hence the DNA fingerprint enables the recognition of exclusions from paternity; it does not, however, allow a statistical analysis, no matter which method be employed.
Institut für Anthropologie und Humangenetik, Universität Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany.
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D002871:Chromosome Banding; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000592:standards*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005787:Gene Frequency; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010641:Phenotype; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D015203:Reproducibility of Results