Inferring ethnic origin by means of an STR profile

We report the use of DNA profiles from six STR loci for inferring the ethnic origin of a crime stain and discuss how such inference may be used as intelligence information to reduce the expected number of interviews to resolve a case. To enable this work, databases have been created for five British...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Forensic science international 2001-06, Vol.119 (1), p.17-22
Hauptverfasser:	Lowe, Alex L, Urquhart, Andrew, Foreman, Lindsey A, Evett, Ian W
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	African Continental Ancestry Group - genetics Asia, Southeastern - ethnology Asian Continental Ancestry Group - genetics Bias Biological and medical sciences Blood Stains Caribbean Region - ethnology Databases, Factual Decision theory Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA DNA Fingerprinting - methods DNA Fingerprinting - standards Estimates Ethnic Groups - genetics Ethnicity European Continental Ancestry Group - genetics Forensic medicine Forensic sciences forensics Gene Frequency - genetics Genetic testing Genotype Genotype & phenotype Humans India - ethnology Interviews Investigations Likelihood ratio Medical sciences Middle East - ethnology Minisatellite Repeats - genetics Minority & ethnic groups Population Predictive Value of Tests Probability Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine short tandem repeats Statistics STR United Kingdom White people
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Zusammenfassung:	We report the use of DNA profiles from six STR loci for inferring the ethnic origin of a crime stain and discuss how such inference may be used as intelligence information to reduce the expected number of interviews to resolve a case. To enable this work, databases have been created for five British ethnic groups (Caucasians, Afro-Caribbeans, Indian sub-continentals, Southeast Asians and Middle Easterners) that together comprise 99.7% of the UK population.
ISSN:	0379-0738 1872-6283
DOI:	10.1016/S0379-0738(00)00387-X