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Optimized variant calling for estimating kinship.
Forensic science international. Genetics - 1 Nov 2022
Woerner August E, Mandape Sammed, Kapema Kapema Bupe, Duque Tiffany M, Smuts Amy, King Jonathan L, Crysup Benjamin, Wang Xuewen, Huang Meng, Ge Jianye, Budowle Bruce
Abstract excerpt
One of the fundamental goals of forensic genetics is sample attribution, i.e., whether an item of evidence can be associated with some person or persons. The most common scenario involves a direct comparison, e.g., between DNA profiles from an evidentiary item and a sample collected from a person of interest. Less common is an indirect comparison in which kinship is used to potentially identify the source of the...
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