title: Impact of allelic dropout on evidential value of forensic DNA profiles using RMNE.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Two methods are commonly used to report on evidence carried by forensic DNA profiles: the 'Random Man Not Excluded' (RMNE) approach and the likelihood ratio (LR) approach. It is often claimed a major advantage of the LR method that dropout can be assessed probabilistically.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In this article, a new RMNE measure is proposed that like-wise accounts for allelic dropout in an observed forensic DNA profile. We discuss the necessary calculations, underline their simplicity and provide a tool for performing the calculations.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Van Nieuwerburgh
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Goetghebeur
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vandewoestyne
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Deforce
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000379:methods*; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods; D016013:Likelihood Functions
chemical_list: D004247:DNA