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Inferring ethnicity using 15 autosomal STR loci--comparisons among populations of similar and distinctly different physical traits.
Forensic science international. Genetics - 1 Sept 2009
Graydon Matthew, Cholette François, Ng Lay-Keow
Abstract excerpt
The forensic utility of short tandem repeat (STR) polymorphisms for ethnic inference (EI) has recently received limited attention from the research community. The large volume of population specific STR data available from public literature affords us the opportunity to assess the reliability of EIs based on STR profiles, and present significant results. We applied a binary Bayesian approach using 15 autosomal...
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