Testing independence of fragment lengths within VNTR loci.
Methods that were devised to test independence of the bivariate fragment lengths obtained from VNTR loci are applied to several population databases. It is shown that for many of the probes independence (Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium) cannot be sustained.
Geisser
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School of Statistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
Johnson
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D000483:Alleles; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005838:Genotype; D006579:Heterozygote; D006801:Humans; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid