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Case-Type Profiles

Data exhibiting features that are representative of a plausible range of casework conditions for mixtures and single-source samples. These features include masked/shared alleles and stutter, degradation (including different degradation levels for different contributors to a mixture), allele and locus drop-out, and PCR inhibition

Date Added to Lexicon
Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)
ANSI/ASB 018 Standard for Validation of Probabilstic Genotyping Systems. AAFS Academy Standards Board (ASB), 410 North 21st Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80904, 2020. Source link
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