Article
Assessing the evidential value of DNA profiles matching without using the assumption of independent loci.
Journal - Forensic Science Society - 1 Jan 2000
Sudbury A W, Marinopoulos J, Gunn P
Abstract excerpt
DNA profiling allows determination of the alleles at multiple loci on an individual's genome. The frequencies of these alleles are then estimated from a sample drawn from the population. If the occurrences of alleles at different loci are independent, the frequencies may be multiplied together to give an estimate of the probability of DNA from a randomly-chosen member of the population matching the DNA in...
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- Alleles
- Confidence Intervals
- DNA Fingerprinting
- Forensic Medicine
- Genome
- Humans
- Probability
