The use of multiplex PCR and fluorescent dye technology in the automated detection and
analysis of short tandem repeat loci provides not only qualitative information about the
profile—ie which alleles are present—but can also provide quantitative information on the
relative intensities of the bands, and is therefore a measure of the amount of amplified DNA.
The availability of this quantitative information allows for the interpretation of mixtures in a
detailed way which has not been previously possible with many other human identification …