Article
DNA mixtures in forensic casework: a 4-year retrospective study.
Forensic science international - 8 Jul 2003
Torres Yolanda, Flores Inmaculada, Prieto Victoria, López-Soto Manuel, Farfán María José, Carracedo Angel, Sanz Pilar
Abstract excerpt
Occasionally interpretation guidelines from validation studies are difficult to apply to real forensic casework, especially in the case of mixed samples. Exogenous contamination, an unknown number of contributors or unbalanced proportion of each one in the sample and a varied degree of degradation of the biological materials, contribute to the difficulties in the interpretation of sample profiles. In this paper...
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