title: Effectiveness of familial searches.
abstract: The effectiveness of searching DNA databases for relatives of a profile of interest is examined by simulation and real experiments. The technique is found to be remarkably successful at locating parents, children or siblings in a considerable list of profiles.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Curran
authors.forename: John S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Buckleton
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D003241:Consanguinity; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D053803:Forensic Genetics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans