Empirical analysis of the STR profiles resulting from conceptual mixtures

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1361-1366

  Paoletti, David R ^a   Doom, Travis E ^a,b   Krane, Carissa M ^c   Raymer, Michael L ^a,b   Krane, Dan E ^d,e  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

^b Forensic Bioinformatics Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^d WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Biological Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele sharing; Bioinformatics; Combined DNA Index System; DNA mixtures; DNA typing; Forensic science; Short tandem repeats

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ACCURACY; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CALCULATION; COMBINED DNA INDEX SYSTEM; DATA BASE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS; EVALUATION; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; RELIABILITY; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SIBLING; SIMULATION;

EID: 27844486069     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs2004475     Document Type: Article

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