Response to: DNA identification by pedigree likelihood ratio accommodating population substructure and mutations

Thore Egeland; A Philip Dawid; Julia Mortera; Petter Mostad; Andreas Tillmar

doi:10.1186/2041-2223-2-7

Response to: DNA identification by pedigree likelihood ratio accommodating population substructure and mutations

Investig Genet. 2011 Mar 25:2:7. doi: 10.1186/2041-2223-2-7.

Authors

Thore Egeland¹, A Philip Dawid, Julia Mortera, Petter Mostad, Andreas Tillmar

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, The Norwegian University of Life Sciences, PO Box 5003, NO-1432 Aas, Norway. Thore.Egeland@umb.no.

Abstract

Mutation models are important in many areas of genetics including forensics. This letter criticizes the model of the paper 'DNA identification by pedigree likelihood ratio accommodating population substructure and mutations' by Ge et al. (2010). Furthermore, we argue that the paper in some cases misrepresents previously published papers.Please see related letter: http://www.investigativegenetics.com/content/2/1/8.