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Magnus Dehli Vigeland
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Open AccessThe invisible witness: air and dust as DNA evidence of human occupancy in indoor premises
Humans constantly shed deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) into the surrounding environment. This DNA may either remain suspended in the air or it settles onto surfaces as indoor dust. In this study, we explored the p...
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Open AccessCorrelation between gene expression and MRI STIR signals in patients with chronic low back pain and Modic changes indicates immune involvement
Disability and distress caused by chronic low back pain (LBP) lacking clear pathoanatomical explanations cause huge problems both for patients and society. A subgroup of patients has Modic changes (MC), identi...
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Open AccessPairwise relatedness testing in the context of inbreeding: expectation and variance of the likelihood ratio
In this paper we investigate various effects of inbreeding on the likelihood ratio (LR) in forensic kinship testing. The basic setup of such testing involves formulating two competing hypotheses, in the form o...
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Open AccessRelatedness coefficients in pedigrees with inbred founders
We study an extension of the standard framework for pedigree analysis, in which we allow pedigree founders to be inbred. This solves a number of practical challenges in calculating coefficients of relatedness,...
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Mixtures with relatives and linked markers
Mixture DNA profiles commonly appear in forensic genetics, and a large number of statistical methods and software are available for such cases. However, most of the literature concerns mixtures where the contr...
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Smooth tropical surfaces with infinitely many tropical lines
We study the tropical lines contained in smooth tropical surfaces in ℝ3. On smooth tropical quadric surfaces we find two one-dimensional families of tropical lines, like in classical algebraic geometry. Unlike th...
