Assessing paternities with inconclusive STR results: The suitability of bi-allelic markers.

doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2012.05.002

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Assessing paternities with inconclusive STR results: The suitability of bi-allelic markers.

Forensic science international. Genetics - 1 Jan 2013

Pinto Nádia, Magalhães Marta, Conde-Sousa Eduardo, Gomes Cláudia, Pereira Rui, Alves Cíntia, Gusmão Leonor, Amorim António

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In paternity testing the genetic profiles of the individuals are used to compare the relative likelihoods of the alleged father and the child being related as father/offspring against, usually, being unrelated. In the great majority of the cases, analyses with the widely used sets of short tandem repeat markers (STRs) provide powerful statistical evidence favouring one of the alternative hypotheses. Nevertheless,...

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Alleles
Genetic Markers
Humans
Male
Microsatellite Repeats
Paternity

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PMID: 22658886
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2012.05.002

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