Distinguishing full siblings from half‐siblings in limited pedigrees

1 January 2000

journal article
research article
Published by Wiley in Transfusion

Vol. 40 (1), 44-47
https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1537-2995.2000.40010044.x

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Full siblings were compared with half‐siblings to observe how well the two relationships could be distinguished by informative tests. STUDY AND DESIGN METHODS: Parentage analysis ascertai...

Keywords

HSI(S) = HALF‐SIBLING INDEX(ES)
PI = PATERNITY INDEX
SI(S) = (FULL) SIBLING INDEX(ES)
VNTR = VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEATS

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