Estimating the number of contributors to a DNA profile

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 271-275

  Egeland, Thore ^a   Dalen, Ingvild ^b   Mostad, Petter F ^c  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bayes; Estimates; Likelihood; Mixture evidence; SNP

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BODY FLUIDS; CRIME; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 0242365488     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-003-0382-7     Document Type: Article

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