Science & Justice
Volume 51, Issue 1 , Pages 10-15 , March 2011

The evidentiary values of “cold hits” in a DNA database search on two-person mixture

Received 5 May 2010 ,Revised 14 July 2010 ,Accepted 18 July 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.scijus.2010.07.002

Science & Justice
Volume 51, Issue 1 , Pages 10-15 , March 2011

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