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Weight of the evidence of genetic investigations of ancestry informative markers

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  • Tvedebrink, Torben
  • Eriksen, Poul Svante
  • Mogensen, Helle Smidt
  • Morling, Niels

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Ancestry-informative markers (AIMs) are markers that give information about the ancestry of individuals. They are used in forensic genetics for predicting the geographic origin of the investigated individual in crime and identification cases. In the exploration of the genogeographic origin of an AIMs profile, the likelihoods of the AIMs profile in various populations may be calculated. However, there may not be an appropriate reference population in the database. The fact that the likelihood ratio (LR) of one population compared to that of another population is large does not imply that any of the populations is relevant.

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  • Tvedebrink, Torben & Eriksen, Poul Svante & Mogensen, Helle Smidt & Morling, Niels, 2018. "Weight of the evidence of genetic investigations of ancestry informative markers," Theoretical Population Biology, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 1-10.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:thpobi:v:120:y:2018:i:c:p:1-10
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2017.12.004
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    1. Pfaffelhuber, Peter & Rohde, Angelika, 2022. "A central limit theorem concerning uncertainty in estimates of individual admixture," Theoretical Population Biology, Elsevier, vol. 148(C), pages 28-39.
    2. Mads Lindskou & Poul Svante Eriksen & Torben Tvedebrink, 2020. "Outlier detection in contingency tables using decomposable graphical models," Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics;Finnish Statistical Society;Norwegian Statistical Association;Swedish Statistical Association, vol. 47(2), pages 347-360, June.

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