Developing allelic and stutter peak height models for a continuous method of DNA interpretation

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 296-304

  Bright, Jo Anne ^a,b   Taylor, Duncan ^c   Curran, James M ^b   Buckleton, John S ^a  

^a MT ALBERT RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c South Australia Pathology   (Australia)

Author keywords

Continuous models; DNA interpretation; Mixture interpretation; Stutter

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HETEROZYGOUS BALANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUTTER RATIO;

ALLELES; DNA; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84874680509     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: 18780326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2012.11.013     Document Type: Article

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