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Assessment of Deoxyribonucleic Acid Fingerprinting Evidence in Paternity and Immigration Cases
Author(s) -
Curnow R. N.,
Wheeler Sharon
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series a (statistics in society)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.103
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-985X
pISSN - 0964-1998
DOI - 10.2307/2982699
Subject(s) - dna profiling , immigration , biology , genetics , political science , law , dna
SUMMARY The statistical interpretation of deoxyribonucleic acid profile data based on multilocus probes in paternity and immigration cases is described. The importance of allowing for the possibility of mutant bands in the child is stressed. The robustness of the calculated probabilities to the biological and statistical assumptions and the need for more information about mutation and mutation rates and about allelic frequencies and non‐allelic associations in specific populations is discussed.