Assessment of Deoxyribonucleic Acid Fingerprinting Evidence in Paternity and Immigration Cases

R. N. Curnow and Sharon Wheeler

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 1991, vol. 154, issue 1, 97-99

Abstract: The statistical interpretation of deoxyribonucleic acid profile data based on multilocus probes in paternity and immigration cases is described. The importance of allowing for the possibility of mutant bands in the child is stressed. The robustness of the calculated probabilities to the biological and statistical assumptions and the need for more information about mutation and mutation rates and about allelic frequencies and non‐allelic associations in specific populations is discussed.

Date: 1991
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