The similarity index and DNA fingerprinting.

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Summary

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.

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Published
1990-09-01
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Keywords

Biology, DNA profiling, Similarity (geometry), Fingerprint (computing), Estimator

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