Forensic Science International: Genetics
Volume 5, Issue 4 , Pages 265-268 , August 2011

Forensim: An open-source initiative for the evaluation of statistical methods in forensic genetics

Received 13 November 2009 ,Revised 8 February 2010 ,Accepted 20 March 2010.

References 

  1. Jobling MA, Gill P. Encoded evidence: DNA in forensic analysis. Nat. Rev. Genet. 2004;5:739–751
  2. Clayton T, Buckleton J. Mixtures. In:  Buckleton J,  Triggs CM,  Walsh SJ editor. Forensic DNA Evidence Interpretation. CRC Press; 2005;p. 217–274
  3. Curran JM, Triggs CM, Buckleton J, Weir BS. Interpreting DNA mixtures in structured populations. J. Forensic Sci. 1999;44:987–995
  4. Fung WQ, Hu YQ. Interpreting DNA mixtures with related contributors in subdivided populations. Scand. J. Statist. 2004;31:115–130
  5. Thompson WC, Taroni F, Aitken CG. How the probability of a false positive affects the value of DNA evidence. J. Forensic Sci. 2003;48:47–54
  6. Buckleton J, Gill P. Low copy number. In:  Buckleton J,  Triggs CM,  Walsh SJ editor. Forensic DNA Evidence Interpretation. CRC Press; 2005;p. 275–297
  7. R Development Core Team, R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing, R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria, ISBN: 3-900051-07-0, available at http://www.R-project.org, 2008.
  8. Nicholson G, Smith AV, Jónsson F, Gústafsson O, Stefánsson K, Donnelly P. Assessing population differentiation and isolation from single-nucleotide polymorphism data. J. R. Stat. Soc. B. 2002;64:695–715
  9. Marchini J, Cardon LR. Discussion on the meeting on “Statistical modelling and analysis of genetic data”. J. R. Stat. Soc. B. 2002;64:740–741
  10. Paoletti DR, Doom TE, Krane CM, Raymer ML, Krane DE. Empirical analysis of the STR profiles resulting from conceptual mixtures. J. Forensic Sci. 2005;50:1361–1366
  11. H. Haned, L. Pène, J.R. Lobry, A.B. Dufour, D. Pontier, Estimating the number of contributors to forensic DNA mixtures: does maximum likelihood perform better than maximum allele count? J. Forensic. Sci. (2011), in press.
  12. Balding DJ, Nichols RA. DNA profile match probability calculation: how to allow for population stratification, relatedness, database selection and single bands. Forensic. Sci. Int. 1994;64:125–140
  13. Skare Ø, Sheehan N, Egeland T. Identification of distant family relationships. Bioinformatics. 2009;25:2376–2382
  14. Egeland T, Mostad PF, Mevåg B, Stenersen M. Beyond traditional paternity and identification cases. Selecting the most probable pedigree. Forensic Sci. Int. 2000;110:47–59
  15. Bill M, Gill P, Curran J, Clayton T, Pinchin R, Healy M, et al. PENDULUM—a guideline-based approach to the interpretation of STR mixtures. Forensic Sci. Int. 2005;148:181–189
  16. Gill P, Curran J, Elliot K. A graphical simulation model of the entire DNA process associated with the analysis of short tandem repeat loci. Nucleic Acids Res. 2005;33:632–643
  17. Perlin MW. In:  Okoye MI,  Wecht CH editor. Identifying Human Remains Using TrueAllele® Technology. Forensic Investigation and Management of Mass Disasters. Tucson, AZ: Lawyers & Judges Publishing Co.; 2007;p. 31–38
  18. Fung WK, Hu YQ. Statistical DNA Forensics: Theory, Methods and Computation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2008;
  19. Butler JM, Schoske R, Vallone PM, Redman JW, Kline MC. Allele frequencies for 15 autosomal STR loci on U.S. Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic populations. J. Forensic Sci. 2003;8:908–911

PII: S1872-4973(10)00074-8

doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2010.03.017

Forensic Science International: Genetics
Volume 5, Issue 4 , Pages 265-268 , August 2011

Article Tools