Forensic identification of relatives of individuals included in a database of DNA profiles
利用 DNA 档案数据库识别入库个体亲属的法医方法
In this paper we evaluate the characteristics observed both on a crime sample and on individuals included in a database to assess the probability of alternative hypotheses concerning identification. The problem is first addressed by considering a generic characteristic and we demonstrate the problem via a computationally efficient Bayesian network. Then we turn our attention to a heritable DNA trait to show how to evaluate the hypotheses that some individuals, genetically…