title: Population data from the New South Wales Aboriginal Australian sub-population for the profiler plus autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) loci.
abstract: It is a requirement that forensic DNA profiling evidence be accompanied by an estimation of its weight, in order that the court can assign an appropriate probative value to it during legal proceedings. There are various models by which this estimation can be made, but each relies on approximations of the allele frequencies in the relevant population. This report provides the results of population genetic analyses at nine autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) loci for the Aboriginal Australian sub-population of New South Wales, Australia.
authors.affiliation: Forensic Biology, Division of Analytical Laboratories, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Lidcombe, NSW 2141, Australia.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goetz
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: West
authors.forename: Simon J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.forename: John S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Buckleton
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences