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Table 1 Maximum probabilities of detecting a mixture of two random unrelated individuals for an N-allele microhap

From: Criteria for selecting microhaplotypes: mixture detection and deconvolution

Number of equally frequent alleles Probability of three alleles being present Probability of four alleles being present Total probability of detecting more than two alleles in a mixture
Three 0.4444 - 0.4444
Four 0.5625 0.09375 0.65625
Five 0.5760 0.1920 0.7680
  1. Maximum probabilities of detecting a mixture of two random unrelated individuals for three-, four-, and five-allele microhaps. These are the values when all alleles are equally frequent. As shown in Figure 1, the values are lower when the frequencies are not equal.
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Investigative Genetics

ISSN: 2041-2223

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