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A computerised system has been used to store DNA profiles from 3 hypervariable loci. This initial survey illustrates that band matching is only possible after analysis of the errors associated with electrophoretic systems. A number of databases have been constructed with the three probes investigated and two methods of frequency determination, ‘binning’ and ‘sliding window’ fitting, have been compared.
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Gill, P., Sullivan, K. & Werrett, D.J. The analysis of hypervariable DNA profiles: problems associated with the objective determination of the probability of a match. Hum Genet 85, 75–79 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00276327
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