Abstract：
:The National Research Council recommended the use of the ceiling principle in forensic applications of DNA testing on the grounds that the ceiling principle was believed to be "conservative," giving estimates greater than or equal to the actual genotype frequencies in the appropriate reference population. We show here that the ceiling principle can fail to be conservative in a population with two subpopulations and two loci, each with two alleles at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, if there is some linkage disequilibrium between loci. We also show that the ceiling principle can fail in a population with two subpopulations and a single locus with two alleles if Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium does not hold. We give explicit analytical formulas to describe when the ceiling principle fails. By showing that the ceiling principle is not always mathematically reliable, this analysis gives users of the ceiling principle the responsibility of demonstrating that it is conservative for the particular data with which it is used. Our reanalysis of VNTR data bases of the FBI provides compelling evidence of two-locus associations within three major ethnic groups (Caucasian, black, and Hispanic) in the United States, even though the loci tested are located on different chromosomes. Before the ceiling principle is implemented, more research should be done to determine whether it may be violated in practice.
journal_name
Am J Hum Genetjournal_title
American journal of human geneticsauthors
Slimowitz JR,Cohen JEsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1993-08-01 00:00:00pages
314-23issue
2eissn
0002-9297issn
1537-6605journal_volume
53pub_type
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
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更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1086/379155
更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1086/302010
更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi：10.1086/373964
更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.02.001
更新日期：2011-03-11 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1086/302764
更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1086/420772
更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1086/338660
更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1086/342732
更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1086/382138
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
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doi：
更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1086/509881
更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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journal_title：American journal of human genetics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.07.003
更新日期：2014-08-07 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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