Duo / Motherless Case
Definition
A paternity test in which the mother's profile is unavailable; the PI denominator must integrate over all possible maternal allele contributions from the population, generally reducing the CPI relative to the trio configuration.
Related terms
- Combined Paternity Index (CPI)
- The product of all individual paternity indices across all marker systems tested. Assumes independence of the marker systems. The CPI is a...
- Familias
- Open-source kinship LR software developed in Norway, the reference platform for ISFG kinship workshops and used operationally by forensic labs in Sweden,...
- Inbreeding Coefficient (F)
- The probability that two alleles at a locus in an individual are identical by descent, reflecting population consanguinity. Non-zero F values affect...
- NamUs
- National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (US), a national database cross-matching PM profiles of unidentified remains against AM kinship reference profiles; has...
- Paternity Index (PI)
- A likelihood ratio that compares the probability of the observed serological profile if the alleged father is the biological father to the...
- Sibling Likelihood Ratio (SLR)
- Likelihood ratio comparing the probability of the observed genotype data if two persons are full siblings versus unrelated. Values much greater than...
- Track Child
- India's Missing Persons and Children portal managed by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and NCRB, the domestic framework through which...
Explained in
- Paternity, Complex Kinship and Missing-Persons CaseworkA paternity test in which the mother's profile is unavailable; the PI denominator must integrate over all possible maternal allele contributions from the popul...