Forensic Inference from DNA Fingerprints
基于 DNA 指纹的法医推断
The recent discovery of hypervariable regions of the human genome provides scientists with an important new tool for forensic inference. The DNA data obtained from these hypervariable regions have been dubbed DNA fingerprints. Despite the potential power of DNA fingerprints, their use has been fraught with controversy, deriving in part from a lack of statistical methods to summarize the information contained in a DNA fingerprint. This article provides such a method, useful…