Weight of the evidence of genetic investigations of ancestry informative markers

Torben Tvedebrink, Poul Svante Eriksen, Helle Smidt Mogensen and Niels Morling

Theoretical Population Biology, 2018, vol. 120, issue C, 1-10

Abstract: Ancestry-informative markers (AIMs) are markers that give information about the ancestry of individuals. They are used in forensic genetics for predicting the geographic origin of the investigated individual in crime and identification cases. In the exploration of the genogeographic origin of an AIMs profile, the likelihoods of the AIMs profile in various populations may be calculated. However, there may not be an appropriate reference population in the database. The fact that the likelihood ratio (LR) of one population compared to that of another population is large does not imply that any of the populations is relevant.

Keywords: Forensic genetics; Ancestry informative markers; Population genetics; Exact likelihood ratio test (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2017.12.004

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