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Principles of Forensic DNA for Officers of the Court

Probability of Exclusion (cont.)

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Conclusions using this statistic relate the probability that a random person from the reference population would potentially be excluded from contributing to the mixture. For example, the probability of excluding a random person from the U.S. population from contributing to the DNA mixture is estimated to be greater than 99.997%.

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