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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
Abstract excerpt
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 common ancestor. Ignoring this uncertainty is consistently unfair to innocent suspects. The effect is usually small,...
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