Science & Justice
Volume 48, Issue 4 , Pages 164-167, December 2008

Effectiveness of familial searches

  • James M. Curran

      Affiliations

    • Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
    • ,
  • John S. Buckleton

      Affiliations

    • ESR, Auckland, New Zealand
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

Received 24 October 2007; received in revised form 3 April 2008; accepted 11 April 2008. published online 25 June 2008.

Abstract 

The effectiveness of searching DNA databases for relatives of a profile of interest is examined by simulation and real experiments. The technique is found to be remarkably successful at locating parents, children or siblings in a considerable list of profiles.

Keywords: Familial searching, DNA databases

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PII: S1355-0306(08)00063-4

doi:10.1016/j.scijus.2008.04.004

Science & Justice
Volume 48, Issue 4 , Pages 164-167, December 2008

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