Estimating mutation rates from paternity casework

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-18

  Vicard, P ^a   Dawid, A P ^b   Mortera, J ^a   Lauritzen, S L ^c  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA profile; Hidden mutation; Likelihood function; Mutation models; Object oriented Bayesian network; Uncertain paternity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MODEL; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION RATE; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; PATERNITY;

EID: 36049005631     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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