Empirical testing of estimated DNA frequencies

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 267-272

  Curran, James M ^a   Walsh, Simon J ^a   Buckleton, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

DNA; Empirical testing; Pairwise matches; Probabilities; Relatedness

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ABORIGINE; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

ALLELES; AUSTRALIA; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP;

EID: 34548495836     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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