Impact of allelic dropout on evidential value of forensic DNA profiles using RMNE.
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.
Van Nieuwerburgh
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Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Goetghebeur
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Vandewoestyne
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Deforce
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D000483:Alleles; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000379:methods*; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods; D016013:Likelihood Functions
D004247:DNA