On the consequences of DNA profile mismatches for close relatives of an excluded suspect

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 176-180

  Sjerps, Marjan ^a   Kloosterman, Ate D ^a  

^a Gerechtelijk Laboratorium   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DNA profile; Exclusion; Forensic DNA typing; Mismatch; Relatives

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ETHICS; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JURISPRUDENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE;

ALLELES; DNA; FAMILY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; RAPE; SEMEN;

EID: 0032893492     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004140050227     Document Type: Article

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