Population stratification in Argentina strongly influences likelihood ratio estimates in paternity testing as revealed by a simulation-based approach

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-69

  Toscanini, Ulises ^a   Salas, Antonio ^c   García Magariños, Manuel ^c   Gusmão, Leonor ^b   Raimondi, Eduardo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN FAVALORO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Argentina; Autosomal STRs; Paternity index; Population stratification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PATERNITY; PEDIGREE; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TANDEM REPEAT;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARGENTINA; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; PATERNITY; PEDIGREE; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 76849103692     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-009-0359-2     Document Type: Article

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