title: Description and analysis of allele distribution for four VNTR markers in French and French Canadian populations.
abstract: Allele distributions were determined for several VNTR loci in the general French Caucasian population, a French regional population from Brittany and in three French Canadian populations, residing either in Montréal or in one of two other regions in Québec. Allele distributions are highly polymorphic in all populations sampled. Despite a well-documented genetic founder effect in one of the populations, no disequilibrium was detected over all genotypes, within and between loci, for the data bases in this study. Moreover, there were no forensically significant differences observed between estimated frequencies of 1,964 Caucasian and non-Caucasian target DNA profiles estimated in any of the groups.
authors.affiliation: Forensic Science Research and Training Center, FBI Academy, Quantico, Va 22135, USA.
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Monson
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Moisan
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Pascal
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McSween
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aubert
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giusti
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Budowle
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lavergne
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D002170:Canada; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D005602:France; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005819:Genetic Markers; D006801:Humans; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D044465:White People / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers