The impact of commercialization on the evaluation of DNA evidence

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Jackson, Graham ^a,b  

^a Advance Forensic Science   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity; Evaluation; Hierarchy of issues; Likelihood ratio; Source; Sub source

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890253018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00227     Document Type: Article

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