FORENSIC STATISTICAL TOOL (FST): A PROBABILISTIC GENOTYPING SOFTWARE PROGRAM FOR HUMAN IDENTIFICATION

Most of the time, these types of error rates refer to issues with individuals working in laboratories and testifying in the courts, and are purported to be difficult to estimate for all forms of DNA testing across the United States.9 Although less publicized than events such as sample switches, there is an inherent error rate in any scientific test method even if it is relatively small.10 This particular type of error refers to the scientific accuracy of the method itself.\n OCME validation studies on touched objects for both 28 cycle PCR (averaging 3 alleles) and 31 cycle (averaging 9 alleles) low copy number (LCN) samples show that multiple individual DNA samples can be identified.40 Contamination can be significant in determining whether the DNA detected actually represents the DNA from the evidentiary item, leading to confounded interpretation.