Searching mixed DNA profiles directly against profile databases

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 102-110

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

^a MT ALBERT RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c FORENSIC SCIENCE SA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Continuous models; Database; Forensic DNA; Likelihood ratio

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; SPERM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; SEMEN;

EID: 84891602639     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: 18780326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2013.12.001     Document Type: Article

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