In a group of 100,000 people, about how many would be expected to have the same genotype as the crime scene sample? For simplicity, assume all SSR alleles are present in the population at a frequency of 0.2.

A) 0.000256
B) 6
C) 13
D) 51
E) None of the choices is correct.


C) 13

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