THE RARITY OF DNA PROFILES.

The annals of applied statistics ·Vol. 1 ·No. 2 ·2007-00-00 ·Pages 358-370

Weir BS

Abstract

It is now widely accepted that forensic DNA profiles are rare, so it was a surprise to some people that different people represented in offender databases are being found to have the same profile. In the first place this is just an illustration of the birthday problem, but a deeper analysis must take into account dependencies among profiles caused by family or population membership.

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Weir Bruce S

Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.

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Article Info

Journal

The annals of applied statistics

Abbr.

Ann Appl Stat

ISSN

1932-6157

DOI

10.1214/07-AOAS128

Published

2007-00-00

Pages

358-370

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

101479511

PMCID

PMC2585748

Grants

NIGMS NIH HHS · R01 GM075091 · United States

NIGMS NIH HHS · R01 GM075091-02 · United States

NIDCR NIH HHS · U01 DE017018 · United States

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