A computerised method for calculating the probability of pedigrees from genetic data

Science and Justice - Journal of the Forensic Science Society

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 269-274

  Egeland, T ^a,b   Mostad, P F ^c   Olaisen, B ^b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN COMPUTING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Forensic science; Forensic statistics; Genetics; Identification; Likelihood ratio; Paternity index; Pedigree

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; PATERNITY TEST; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0030690345     PISSN: 13550306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1355-0306(97)72202-0     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Mostad PF and Egeland T. Probability assessments of family relations using the program 'pater'. NR-note SAND/6/96, 1996, Norwegian Computing Center.
2. Olaisen B, Stenersen M and Mevǎg B. Identification by DNA analysis of the victims of the August 1996 Spitsbergen civil aircraft disaster Nature Genetics 1997; 15. 402-405.
3. Lindley DV Statistics and the Law. The Statistician, 1977; 26: 203-220
4. Evett I. Interpretation: a personal odyssey. In: The Use of Statistics in Forensic Science. Chichester: Ellis Horwood, 1991: 9-22.
5. Essen-Möller E Die Beweiskraft der Ähnlichkeit im Vaterschaftsnachweis. Theoretische Grundlagen Mitteilung Anthropologische Gesellschaft. (Wien) 1938 ; 68: 9-53.
6. Gjertson DW, Mickey MR. Hopfield J, Takenouchi T and Terasaki PI. Calculation of probability of paternity using DNA sequences. American Journal of Human Genetics 1988; 43: 860-869
7. Hummel K, Ihm P and Conradt J. A 'universal program' for the computation of the plausibility of the biological fatherhood and other relationships on the base of blood group findings including the HLA-system with native as well as foreign people. Vox Sanguinis 1976, 31: 456-457
8. Brenner CH. Symbolic kinship program Genetics 1997; 145(2): 535-542
9. Weir B. Genetic data analysis II. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland Massachusetts, 1996.
10. Roeder K. DNA Fingerprinting: A review of the controversy. Statistical Science 1994; 9: 222-278.
11. Elston R and Stewart J. A general model for the genetic analysis of pedigree data. Human Heredity 1971; 21: 523-534
12. Balding DJ and Nichols RA. A method for quantifying differentiation between populations at multi-allelic loci and its implications for investigating identity and patemity. Genetica 96: 3-12, 1995.
13. NRC. The evaluation of forensic DNA evidence. National Research Council, USA, 1996.
14. Devlin B, Risch N and Roeder K. Forensic inference from DNA fingerprints. Journal of American Statistical Association 1992; 87: 337-349.
15. Morris J, Sanda A and Glassberg J Biostatistical evaluation of evidence from continuous allele frequency distribution Deoxyribonucleid Acid (DNA) probes in reference to disputed paternity and identity. Journal of Forensic Sciences 1989: 1311-1317.