Evaluating Methods to Correct for Population Stratification when Estimating Paternity Indexes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Toscanini, Ulises ^a   Garcia Magariños, Manuel ^b   Berardi, Gabriela ^a   Egeland, Thore ^c   Raimondi, Eduardo ^a   Salas, Antonio ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN FAVALORO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION RESEARCH; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FORENSIC GENETICS; FST CORRECTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PATERNITY INDEX; PATERNITY TEST; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REFERENCE DATABASE; REFERENCE VALUE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STRATIFIED SAMPLE;

ARGENTINA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PATERNITY; PEDIGREE;

EID: 84870618398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049832     Document Type: Article

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