Allele distribution of a VNTR polymorphism at D4S43 locus in the Japanese population.
Allele frequencies for the VNTR locus D4S43 were determined in a Japanese population sample by the polymerase chain reaction. Nine different alleles containing 1-15 repeats of the basic 14 bp unit were observed in 156 unrelated Japanese. The most common allele was one repeat unit (62.82%), and the next common alleles were those with 11 (14.42%) and 7 repeat units (12.50%). We estimated that D4S43 locus has a heterozygosity index of 0.56, a mean exclusion chance of 0.32, a discrimination rate of 0.76, and a polymorphic information content of 0.52. No evidence of significant deviations from the Hardy-Weinberg equillibrium was found in the Japanese population data.
Katsuyama
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Department of Legal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
Harashima
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N
Tsuchikane
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A
Ota
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M
Liu
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C
Zenda
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H
Fukushima
H
H
D000483:Alleles; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002894:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D005787:Gene Frequency; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic
D004247:DNA