Inferring ethnic origin by means of an STR profile

Forensic Science International

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 17-22

  Lowe, Alex L ^a   Urquhart, Andrew ^a   Foreman, Lindsey A ^a   Evett, Ian W ^a  

^a FORENSIC SCIENCE SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA; Ethnicity; Likelihood ratio; Probability; Statistics; STR

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CALCULATION; CAUCASIAN; DNA DETERMINATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICS; TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0035371825     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-0738(00)00387-X     Document Type: Article

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