Recently, Prescuittini and Egeland [
[1]
] have challenged recommendation 5 of the ISFG DNA Commission on mixture interpretation
[
[2]
] which states:“There is a common misconception that the numbers of contributors under Hp and Hd should be the same. There is no requirement for this”
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Publication history
Published online: November 02, 2016
Received:
September 30,
2016
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