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The similarity index and DNA fingerprinting.
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DNA-fingerprint similarity is being used increasingly to make inferences about levels of genetic variation within and between natural populations. It is shown that the similarity index--the average fraction of shared restriction fragments--provides upwardly biased estimates of population homozygosity but nearly unbiased estimates of the average identity-in-state for random pairs of individuals. A method is suggested for partitioning the DNA-fingerprint dissimilarity into within- and between-population components. Some simple expressions are given for the sampling variances of these estimators.
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- Venue
- Molecular Biology and Evolution
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1990-09
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 478-84
- ISSN
- 0737-4038 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-1719
- OpenAlex
- W1952015772
- Cited by
- 637
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 10.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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