Evaluating forensic DNA mixtures with contributors of different structured ethnic origins: a computer software.
The effect of a structured population on the likelihood ratio of a DNA mixture has been studied by the current authors and others. In practice, contributors of a DNA mixture may belong to different ethnic/racial origins, a situation especially common in multi-racial countries such as the USA and Singapore. We have developed a computer software which is available on the web for evaluating DNA mixtures in multi-structured populations. The software can deal with various DNA mixture problems that cannot be handled by the methods given in a recent article of Fung and Hu.
Hu
Yue-Qing
YQ
Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, 210018, Nanjing, China.
Fung
Wing K
WK
D000483:Alleles; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics*; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics*; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D012984:Software; D013194:Staining and Labeling / Q000379:methods
D004247:DNA