Analysis of the STR loci HUMF13A01, HUMFXIIIB, HUMLIPOL, HUMTH01, HUMTPOX and HUMVWFA31 in a Japanese population

Population studies on six short tandem repeat loci, HUMF13A01, HUMFXIIIB, HUMLIPOL, HUMTH01, HUMTPOX and HUMVWFA31 were carried out in a sample of unrelated Japanese individuals (n = 337-545) living in Gifu Prefecture (central region of Japan). Five alleles could be identified for HUMFXIIIB, six for...

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Published in:International journal of legal medicine 1996-03, Vol.109 (1), p.34-36
Main Authors: Nagai, A, Yamada, S, Watanabe, Y, Bunai, Y, Ohya, I
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Continental Ancestry Group - genetics
Alleles
Asian Continental Ancestry Group - genetics
Chi-Square Distribution
Chromosome Mapping - methods
DNA - analysis
European Continental Ancestry Group - genetics
Forensic Medicine - methods
Gene Frequency
Humans
Japan
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
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Summary:Population studies on six short tandem repeat loci, HUMF13A01, HUMFXIIIB, HUMLIPOL, HUMTH01, HUMTPOX and HUMVWFA31 were carried out in a sample of unrelated Japanese individuals (n = 337-545) living in Gifu Prefecture (central region of Japan). Five alleles could be identified for HUMFXIIIB, six for HUMF13A01, HUMLIPOL, HUMTH01 and HUMTPOX, and eight for HUMVWFA31. For all/six loci no deviations from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium hypothesis were detected. The mean exclusion chance ranged from 0.22 to 0.60, the power of discrimination from 0.63 to 0.93, and the expected heterozygosity from 0.43 to 0.80. Allele frequency distributions for the loci in the Japanese sample were not similar to those in samples from other racial or ethnic groups except for the Chinese (for HUMTPOX). The results demonstrate that HUMTH01, HUMTPOX and HUMVWFA31 are more useful for forensic investigations in the Japanese population that the other three loci.
ISSN:0937-9827
1437-1596
DOI:10.1007/bf01369599