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The expected performance of single nucleotide polymorphism loci in paternity testing.

Ayres KL

School of Applied Statistics, University of Reading, UK. k.l.ayres@reading.ac.uk

We discuss the utility of single nucleotide polymorphism loci for full trio and mother-unavailable paternity testing cases, in the presence of population substructure and relatedness of putative and actual fathers. We focus primarily on the expected number of loci required to gain specified probabilities of mismatches, and report the expected proportion of paternity indices greater than three threshold values for these loci.

Published 26 September 2005 in Forensic Sci Int, 154(2): 167-72.
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