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Table 2 Example of a top alignment for marker D4S291 with low posterior probability 0.235 due to four consecutive low frequency alleles (theoretical alleles 5–8).

From: Merging microsatellite data: enhanced methodology and software to combine genotype data for linkage and association analysis

Data 1

Data 2

TA

TF

Overlap Probability

A

A'

1

0.5442

1.000

B

B'

2

0.0281

0.997

C

C'

3

0.0453

1.000

D

D'

4

0.2859

1.000

E

E'

5

0.0104

0.552

E

F'

6

0.0075

0.806

E

G'

7

0.0198

0.798

F

H'

8

0.0114

0.698

F

I'

9

0.0473

1.000

  1. TA is an abbreviation for "theoretical alleles" and TF is an abbreviation for "theoretical frequencies".