[Family analysis of human "fingerprints" obtained using a phage M13 DNA probe]

The human "fingerprints" detected by the phage M13 DNA probe from 40 simple families with some presumably genetic malformations were observed. When only one parent had a specific band, the mean segregation frequency of all the electrophoretic bands detected was equal to 0.485, which confirmed the hypothesis about the Mendelian inheritance and high level of heterozygosity of hypervariable loci. The mean new measure of similarity between the parents calculated by Li C.C. was 0.54 (this measure within only fathers and only mothers was equal to the mean population level of similarity 0.41).