CDR: Re: why should it be trusted?

Ken Brown k.brown at ccs.bbk.ac.uk
Fri Oct 20 05:45:39 PDT 2000


"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





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