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 …

Background The evaluation and interpretation of forensic DNA mixture evidence faces
greater interpretational challenges due to increasingly complex mixture evidence. Such …

DNA-based human identity testing is conducted by comparison of PCR-amplified
polymorphic Short Tandem Repeat (STR) motifs from a known source with the STR profiles …

The use of biostatistical software programs to assist in data interpretation and calculate
likelihood ratios is essential to forensic geneticists and part of the daily case work flow for …

In criminal investigations, forensic scientists need to evaluate DNA mixtures. The estimation
of the number of contributors and evaluation of the contribution of a person of interest (POI) …

Continuous probabilistic genotyping software enables the interpretation of highly complex
DNA profiles that are prone to stochastic effects and/or consist of multiple contributions. The …

In response to requests from the forensic community, commercial companies are generating
larger, more sensitive, and more discriminating STR multiplexes. These multiplexes are now …

The EuroForMix model has been extended to create a new open-source software called
EFMrep which enables the combination of STR DNA mixture samples from different …

Probabilistic genotyping approaches are increasingly used for the interpretation of DNA
mixtures. To explore the specificity of one of these systems (STRmix™), we conducted an …

Abstract Recently, Lund and Iyer (L&I) raised an argument regarding the use of likelihood
ratios in court. In our view, their argument is based on a lack of understanding of the …