Forensic DNA Evidence Interpretation

By J. Buckleton, C. Triggs, S. Walsh. 2004

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Painting the target around the matching profile: the Texas sharpshooter fallacy in forensic DNA interpretation (2009, background): “…of the sample, or the presence of inhibitors (contaminants) can make it impossible to determine the genotype at every locus (Butler, 2005, p. 168; Buckleton and Gill, 2005) In some instances, the test yields no information about the genotype at a particular locus; in some instances, one of the…”
ml‐relate: a computer program for maximum likelihood estimation of relatedness and relationship (2006, background): “Genealogical relationships between individuals are conveniently represented mathematically as probabilities that genotypes in the individuals share zero, one or two alleles identical by descent (see Lynch & Walsh 1998; Blouin 2003; or Buckleton et al .”