Mixture
This tool can be applied when a mixed trace (≥ 2 male contributors) should be analysed.
Instructions
- Please enter all alleles detected in the trace mixture separated by semicolons in the appropriate boxes (leave missing loci blank). Please note, that all alleles at DYS385 have to be separated by semicolons as well.
- Please enter the profile of the putative donor (e.g. suspect or victim).
- Choose the appropriate Metapopulation to which all contributors belong.
- Please enter the number of additional contributors. This is the number of all hypothetical contributors to the trace minus one (the putative donor).
- Press calculate.
The result will be a likelihood of donorship vs. non-donorship of the putative donor to the trace.
Note, there are the following limitations: All unknown persons do belong to the same ethnic group (Metapopulation) and they are unrelated. The haplotype of the suspect occurs in the selected Metapopulation. (Otherwise the calculation is not possible.)
Reference: Wolf A., Caliebe A., Junge O., Krawczak M. (2005), 'Forensic interpretation of Y-chromosomal DNA mixtures.',
Forensic Sci Int 152(2-3), 209-13 (
Wolf et al. 2005)
