Abstract The introduction of Short Tandem Repeat (STR) DNA was a revolution within a
revolution that transformed forensic DNA profiling into a tool that could be used, for the first …

The evaluation of weight of evidence for forensic DNA profiles has been a subject of
controversy since their introduction over 20 years ago. Substantial progress has been made …

DNA evidence is widely used in the modern justice system. Statistical methodology plays a
key role in ensuring that this evidence is collected, interpreted, analysed and presented …

DNA is now routinely used in criminal investigations and court cases, although DNA
samples taken at crime scenes are of varying quality and therefore present challenging …

Increases in the sensitivity of DNA profiling technology now allow profiles to be obtained
from smaller and more degraded DNA samples than was previously possible. The resulting …

DNA samples found at a scene of crime or obtained from the debris of a mass disaster
accident are often subject to degradation. When using the STR DNA technology, the DNA …

The application of qPCR to estimate the quantity of DNA present is usually based upon a
short amplicon (typically c. 80bp) and a longer amplicon (typically c. 200–300bp) where the …

The sequencing of STR markers provides additional information present in the underlying
sequence variation that is typically masked by traditional fragment-based genotyping …

DNA typing or profiling is a widely used practice in various forensic laboratories, used, for
example, in sexual assault cases when the source of DNA mixture can combine different …

We present a statistical model for incorporating the extra variability in allelic counts due to
subpopulation structures. In forensic genetics, this effect is modelled by the identical-by …