20 Oct
2000
20 Oct
'00
8:58 a.m.
"Trei, Peter" wrote:
Assuming, of course, that the birth records accurately reflect parentage. If you take a course in human genetics you're likely to be astonished at the rate of fooling around that must occur to account for the appearence of traits within families - I've heard that as high as 10% of firstborns must have had a father different than the one on the birth certificate (no, I can't give you a cite).
Peter
I'm taking a genetics course right now :-) I think the point is that as they will have sequence data as well as family history they can use them to validate each other. Ken