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On paternity determination from multilocus DNA profiles
Author(s) -
Yassouridis Alexander,
Epplen Jorg T.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
electrophoresis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.666
H-Index - 158
eISSN - 1522-2683
pISSN - 0173-0835
DOI - 10.1002/elps.1150120219
Subject(s) - allowance (engineering) , bayes' theorem , extension (predicate logic) , a priori and a posteriori , mathematics , statistics , bayesian probability , genetics , biology , computer science , economics , philosophy , operations management , epistemology , programming language
Various approaches have been worked out to calculate to the probability of paternity from DNA multilocus profiles. Despite promising results, the application and practicability of these approaches are often restricted (due to, e.g. , the equality assumption of the a priori probabilities by using Bayes theorem, no allowance of mutations, etc). Here we present two methods for paternity determination, one of which is an extension of the well‐known procedure of Evett et al. J. Forens. Sci. Soc . 1988, 28 , 249–254. These methods depend on fewer assumption sand therefore maybe applied to a wide spectrum of disputed paternity cases.