Discrimination of half-siblings when maternal genotypes are known

Forensic Science International

Volumn 159, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 141-147

  Mayor, Lianne R ^a   Balding, David J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coancestry; DNA profiling; Fst; Likelihood ratios; Population structure; Relatedness; STRs

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 33646442034     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2005.07.007     Document Type: Article

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