Interpreting Y chromosome STR haplotype mixture

Legal Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 137-143

  Ge, Jianye ^a   Budowle, Bruce ^a   Chakraborty, Ranajit ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA mixture; Evidence interpretation; Likelihood ratio; Probability of exclusion; Short tandem repeats; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DNA DETERMINATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 77950371204     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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