Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6554059 | Forensic Science International: Genetics | 2014 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The effect of uncertainty in the number of contributors to a profile is a matter of some contention in forensic DNA interpretation. Interpretation methods are moving towards continuous models. Within this paper the effect of misspecification of the number of contributors to a profile caused by one artefactual peak, either a large back stutter or a forward stutter, was investigated using a continuous model. The misassignment of the number of contributors to a profile either has no significant effect or decreases the LR for the true contributors. It often increases the chance of an adventitious link.
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Authors
Jo-Anne Bright, James M. Curran, John S. Buckleton,