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A summary of the different approaches is found in People v. Adams (Mich.App. 1992), 195 Mich. App. 267, 489 N.W.2d 192, 198, where the Michigan Court of Appeals noted: \Some courts of other jurisdictions have ruled that DNA identification evidence is admissible at trial, but have then refused to allow into evidence the statistical analysis of the testing because the databases were shown to have not been in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Curnin, 409 Mass. at pp. 225-227, 565 N.E.2d 440; Caldwell, 260 Ga. at pp. 289-290, 393 S.E.2d 436 [1991]; State v. Pennell, 584 A.2d 513, 517-520 (Del.Super. 1989). However, other courts have ...