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

• Main Authors: 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
• Other Authors: Universidade do Porto
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/12372
• Institution: Mahidol University

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 i...