USE OF DNA-FINGERPRINTING FOR HUMAN-POPULATION GENETIC-STUDIES

DNA fingerprinting techniques have been used in population genetic stu dies on many different kinds of organisms. Here, we present new applic ations for multilocus DNA fingerprint probes in population studies and demonstrate the applicability of DNA fingerprinting to human populati on genetics, using M13 phage DNA as a probe. The new approach, which i s based on a factor method of numerical coding of nonquantitative data (factor correspondence analysis-FCA), shows good agreement between po pulation position, as indicated by the three principal factors, and et hnogenetic proximity.