DNA profile match probability calculation: how to allow for population stratification, relatedness, database selection and single bands.

doi:10.1016/0379-0738(94)90222-4

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DNA profile match probability calculation: how to allow for population stratification, relatedness, database selection and single bands.

Forensic science international - 1 Feb 1994

Balding D J, Nichols R A

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In DNA profile analysis, uncertainty arises due to a number of factors such as sampling error, single bands and correlations within and between loci. One of the most important of these factors is kinship: criminal and innocent suspect may share one or more bands through identity by descent from a...

Topics

Alleles
Chromosome Banding
DNA
Forensic Medicine
Gene Frequency
Genealogy and Heraldry
Genetics, Population
Heterozygote
Homozygote
Humans
Matched-Pair Analysis
Probability

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