Familial identification: population structure and relationship distinguishability.

With the expansion of offender/arrestee DNA profile databases, genetic forensic identification has become commonplace in the United States criminal justice system. Implementation of familial searching has been proposed to extend forensic identification to family members of individuals with profiles...

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Main Authors: Rori V Rohlfs, Stephanie Malia Fullerton, Bruce S Weir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-02-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3276546?pdf=render