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Impact of allelic dropout on evidential value of forensic DNA profiles using RMNE
F Van Nieuwerburgh1, E Goetghebeur, M Vandewoestyne
1Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Motivation:
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.
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