Dealing with allelic dropout when reporting the evidential value in DNA relatedness analysis

Forensic Science International

Volumn 160, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 134-139

  Buckleton, John ^a   Triggs, Chris ^b  

^a MT ALBERT RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Allelic dropout; Disaster victim identification; DNA; Missing person; Relatedness testing

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DISASTER; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENE LOCUS; INFORMATION; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VICTIM;

EID: 33745852746     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2005.08.023     Document Type: Article

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