CARE	Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, and Ethics
CEIB	Biomedical Research Ethics Committee
CODIS	Combined DNA Index System
CONICH	National Council of Maya Chortí Indigenous Peoples of Honduras
CPD	Combined power of discrimination
CPE	Combined power of exclusion
DNA	Deoxyribonucleic acid
EDTA	Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
ENFSI	European Network of Forensic Science Institutes
ESS	European Standard Set
FBI	Federal Bureau of Investigation
FIS	Inbreeding coefficient measuring heterozygote deficit or excess within a population
FST	Fixation index measuring genetic differentiation between populations
FTA	Flinders Technology Associates card for biological sample preservation
He/He	Expected heterozygosity
Ho	Observed heterozygosity
HWE	Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
INE	National Institute of Statistics
IRB	Institutional Review Board
ISFG	International Society for Forensic Genetics
LD	Linkage disequilibrium
LIMS	Laboratory information management system
LR	Likelihood ratio
MAF	Minimum allele frequency used for forensic frequency estimation
Na	Number of observed alleles
NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology
NRC-II	National Research Council II correction framework for forensic DNA interpretation
PCoA	Principal coordinates analysis
PCR	Polymerase chain reaction
PD	Power of discrimination
PE	Probability of paternity exclusion
PI	Paternity index
PIC	Polymorphic information content
RMP	Random match probability
STR	Short tandem repeat
STRs	Short tandem repeats
SWGDAM	Scientific Working Group on DNA Analysis Methods
TE	Tris-EDTA buffer
TPI	Typical paternity index
UNAH	National Autonomous University of Honduras
Y-STR	Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat
α	Statistical significance level
α′	Bonferroni-corrected significance threshold
θ	Coancestry coefficient used to correct for population substructure
p	p-value