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Published on: February 23, 2011
Evaluation of DNA mixtures involving two pairs of relatives
1Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
This paper considers the statistical evaluation of DNA mixtures in the following situations: (1) two unknown contributors are related respectively to two typed persons, (2) two of the unknown or untyped contributors are related and the third unknown contributor is related to a typed person, or (3) there are two pairs of related unknown contributors to the DNA mixture. The corresponding formulas for evaluating the likelihood ratios on the strength of DNA evidence are derived and the kinship coefficients for the related persons are incorporated into the calculations. Two examples are analyzed for illustration.
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