Forensic Inference From DNA Fingerprints
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基于DNA指纹的法医学推断
- 研究问题
- DNA片段长度存在显著测量误差、真实等位基因不可直接观察时，如何量化样本来自同一人与不同人的证据？
- 方法与思路
- 作者先估计离散等位基因与测量误差形成的混合分布，再比较两种来源假设的似然，并用贝叶斯风险评价位点信息。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称方法为刑事与亲子鉴定等法医学场景提供证据汇总工具，以两个基因位点的数据展示应用，并报告较强的信息辨别力。
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- 应核对混合分布及测量误差的设定、来源假设下似然的构造，以及贝叶斯风险评价所需的信息和实例的代表性。
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原文摘要
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 for forensic inference in criminal (e.g., murder or rape) and civil cases (e.g., paternity). The major difficulty with DNA fingerprint data is that the alleles (distinct DNA fragment sizes) are not observed; rather, one observes measurements of the DNA fragments with substantial error. When measurement error is superimposed on the discrete allele distribution, the fragments follow a mixture distribution. Consequently, our first step for forensic inference was to estimate the mixing distribution. With an estimate of the allele distribution, we summarize the information contained in a particular DNA fingerprint as the likelihood that the suspect and evidentiary samples are from the same individual versus the likelihood that they are from two different individuals. The informativeness of DNA fingerprint loci can be determined using Bayes risk methods. The methods we suggest are illustrated with a data set of DNA fragments from two hypervariable regions of the human genome (two loci, D2S44 and D17S79). Our results indicate that DNA fingerprinting can indeed by a very powerful tool for forensic inference.