Article
Biostatistical evaluation of blood group, HLA and DNA findings in Jeffreys' immigrant test-case using special kinship and DNA algorithms.
International journal of legal medicine - 1 Jan 1992
Hummel K
Abstract excerpt
In the immigration case cited by Jeffreys et al. (1985), the biostatistical evaluation of blood group findings in 16 systems and of HLA-A,B findings for the mother and child, using a special kinship algorithm developed by Ihm and Hummel (1975), produced a probability of maternity of the Ghanaian-born putative mother of W = 6%; the probability of maternity for her sister was W = 94%. Using the DNA multilocus...
Topics
- Adult
- Algorithms
- Blood Grouping and Crossmatching
- Child
- DNA
- Emigration and Immigration
- Female
- Genetics, Population
- HLA Antigens
- Humans
- Models, Genetic
- Models, Statistical