An approach to unified formulae for likelihood ratio calculation in pairwise kinship analysis.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: The likelihood ratio (LR) can be an efficient means of distinguishing various relationships in forensic fields. However, traditional list-based methods for derivation and presentation of LRs in distant or complex relationships hinder code editing and software programming. This paper proposes an approach for a unified formula for LRs, in which differences in participants' genotype combinations can be ignored for specific identification. This formula could reduce the difficulty of by-hand coding, as well as running time of large-sample-size simulation. Methods: The approach is first applied to a problem of kinship identification in which at least one of the participants is alleged to be inbred. This can be divided into two parts: i) the probability of different id

SUBMITTER: Ma G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10879572 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature