Familial identification: Population structure and relationship distinguishability

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Rohlfs, Rori V ^a   Fullerton, Stephanie Malia ^b   Weir, Bruce S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FAMILY; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RELATIVE; SAMPLE; ALLELE; BIOMETRY; CRIME; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; OFFENDER; POPULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ALLELES; BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRIME; CRIMINALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FAMILY; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; POPULATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859192049     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002469     Document Type: Article

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