Karen Ehlers

An interpretive, population-structure-centred forensic analysis demonstrating how Y-STR population differentiation affects evidential robustness and database choice

Y-chromosomal short tandem repeats (Y-STRs) are widely used in forensic genetics, yet the robustness of evidential interpretation depends not only on marker diversity but on the degree of population differentiation underlying reference database selection. This study evaluates Y-S...