Development of a new screening method for faster kinship analyses in mass disasters: a proof of concept study.

ABSTRACT: Kinship analysis in forensics is based on the calculation of the respective kinship indices. However, this calculation is only possible when the subject under identification has been associated with a particular population, whose allele frequency data is available for the particular set of STR markers used in the forensic practices. In the case of mass disasters, where a large number of individuals are to be identified, gathering the population frequency data and calculating the kinship indices can be an intricate process which requires a lot of time and huge resources. The new method of allele matching cut off score (AMCOS) developed in this study is based on the allele sharing approach. This approach simply refers to the number of shared alleles (1 or 2) between the two individuals; also

SUBMITTER: Kakkar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9701697 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature