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A MCMC method for resolving two person mixtures.

James M. Curran
- 01 Dec 2008 - 
- Vol. 48, Iss: 4, pp 168-177
TLDR
A Monte Carlo Markov Chain method for resolving DNA mixtures containing at most four peaks per locus into a major and a minor contributor is presented and can provide posterior probability assessments of the most probable genotype and a likely range for the mixing proportion.
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This article is published in Science & Justice.The article was published on 2008-12-01. It has received 53 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Markov chain Monte Carlo & Posterior probability.

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Validating TrueAllele® DNA mixture interpretation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the extent to which quantitative computer interpretation could elicit more identification information than human review from the same adjudicated two-person mixture data, and found that the average information increase of 6.24 log units (min = 2.32, max = 10.49) over qualitative human review.
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Validating Trueallele® DNA Mixture Interpretation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the extent to which quantitative computer interpretation could elicit more identification information than human review from the same adjudicated two-person mixture data, and they found that the average information increase of 6.24 log units (min=2.32, max=10.49) over qualitative human review.
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Developing allelic and stutter peak height models for a continuous method of DNA interpretation

TL;DR: A series of models are described that can be used to calculate expected values for allele and stutter peak heights, and their ratio SR, which could inform methods which implement a continuous method for the interpretation of DNA profiling data.
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Analysis of forensic DNA mixtures with artefacts

TL;DR: It is shown that the combination of evidence from several samples may give an evidential strength which is close to that of a single‐source trace and thus modelling of peak height information provides a potentially very efficient mixture analysis.
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Exploratory data analysis for the interpretation of low template DNA mixtures

TL;DR: A probabilistic model is used to calculate likelihood ratios when there is uncertainty about the composition of the crime-sample, and how the LRs can be explored when the drop-out and drop-in parameters are varied is illustrated, and the use of Monte Carlo simulations to derive plausible ranges for the probability of drop- out is suggested.
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