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PopAffiliator: Online calculator for individual affiliation to a major population group based on 17 autosomal short tandem repeat genotype profile

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2011-09-01

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14371596
09379827

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10.1007/s00414-010-0472-2

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2-s2.0-80052320295

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Mahidol University

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International Journal of Legal Medicine. Vol.125, No.5 (2011), 629-636

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Luísa Pereira, Farida Alshamali, Rune Andreassen, Ruth Ballard, Wasun Chantratita, Nam Soo Cho, Clotilde Coudray, Jean Michel Dugoujon, Marta Espinoza, Fabricio González-Andrade, Sibte Hadi, Uta Dorothee Immel, Catalin Marian, Antonio Gonzalez-Martin, Gerhard Mertens, Walther Parson, Carlos Perone, Lourdes Prieto, Haruo Takeshita, Héctor Rangel Villalobos, Zhaoshu Zeng, Lev Zhivotovsky, Rui Camacho, Nuno A. Fonseca PopAffiliator: Online calculator for individual affiliation to a major population group based on 17 autosomal short tandem repeat genotype profile. International Journal of Legal Medicine. Vol.125, No.5 (2011), 629-636. doi:10.1007/s00414-010-0472-2 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/12372

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PopAffiliator: Online calculator for individual affiliation to a major population group based on 17 autosomal short tandem repeat genotype profile

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Luísa Pereira
 Farida Alshamali
 Rune Andreassen
 Ruth Ballard
 Wasun Chantratita
 Nam Soo Cho
 Clotilde Coudray
 Jean Michel Dugoujon
 Marta Espinoza
 Fabricio González-Andrade
 Sibte Hadi
 Uta Dorothee Immel
 Catalin Marian
 Antonio Gonzalez-Martin
 Gerhard Mertens
 Walther Parson
 Carlos Perone
 Lourdes Prieto
 Haruo Takeshita
 Héctor Rangel Villalobos
 Zhaoshu Zeng
 Lev Zhivotovsky
 Rui Camacho
 Nuno A. Fonseca

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Universidade do Porto
 General Department of Forensic Sciences and Criminology
 OsloMet – storbyuniversitetet
 California State University Sacramento
 Mahidol University
 National Institute of Scientific Investigation
 Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
 Poder Judicial
 Hospital Metropolitano
 University of Central Lancashire
 Martin-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg
 Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
 Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen
 Medizinische Universitat Innsbruck
 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
 University Institute of Research Police Sciences (IUICP)
 Shimane University
 Universidad de Guadalajara
 Zhengzhou University
 Russian Academy of Sciences
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Porto

Abstract

Because of their sensitivity and high level of discrimination, short tandem repeat (STR) maker systems are currently the method of choice in routine forensic casework and data banking, usually in multiplexes up to 15-17 loci. Constraints related to sample amount and quality, frequently encountered in forensic casework, will not allow to change this picture in the near future, notwithstanding the technological developments. In this study, we present a free online calculator named PopAffiliator ( http://cracs.fc.up.pt/popaffiliator ) for individual population affiliation in the three main population groups, Eurasian, East Asian and sub-Saharan African, based on genotype profiles for the common set of STRs used in forensics. This calculator performs affiliation based on a model constructed using machine learning techniques. The model was constructed using a data set of approximately fifteen thousand individuals collected for this work. The accuracy of individual population affiliation is approximately 86%, showing that the common set of STRs routinely used in forensics provide a considerable amount of information for population assignment, in addition to being excellent for individual identification. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.

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https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/12372

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