Inferring the number of contributors to mixed DNA profiles

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 113-122

  Paoletti, David R ^a   Krane, Dan E ^b   Doom, Travis E ^c   Raymer, Michael ^c  

^a 210 Ross Administration Building ^*  (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

bioinformatics; DNA; mixture; optimization; probabilistic computation

Indexed keywords

DNA PROFILES; FORENSIC SAMPLES; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; MIXTURE ALGORITHM; PROBABILISTIC COMPUTATION; STATISTICAL WEIGHT;

ALGORITHMS; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA; GENES; OPTIMIZATION;

MIXTURES;

DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FORENSIC GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; FORENSIC GENETICS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 81455142801     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2011.76     Document Type: Article

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