Human Identification: The Use of DNA Markers

A method for quantifying differentiation between populations at multi-allelic loci and its implications for investigating identity and paternity.- The effect of relatedness on likelihood ratios and the use of conservative estimates.- The effects of inbreeding on DNA profile frequency estimates using PCR-based loci.- Correlation of DNA fragment sizes within loci in the presence of non-detectable alleles.- Inference of population subdivision from the VNTR distributions of New Zealanders.- Conditioning on the number of bands in interpreting matches of multilocus DNA profiles.- Match probability calculations for multi-locus DNA profiles.- Population genetics of short tandem repeat (STR) loci.- Assessing probability of paternity and the product rule in DNA systems.- The forensic debut of the NRC’s DNA report: population structure, ceiling frequencies and the need for numbers.- Applications of the Dirichlet distribution to forensic match probabilities.- The honest scientist’s guide to DNA evidence.- A comparison of tests for independence in the FBI RFLP data bases.- Alternative approaches to population structure.- DNA evidence: wrong answers or wrong questions?.- Subjective interpretation, laboratory error and the value of forensic DNA evidence: three case studies.- Exact tests for association between alleles at arbitrary numbers of loci.- A bibliography for the use of DNA in human identification.