The distribution of D1S80 (pMCT118) alleles in a southern Italian population sample.
A population study on the distribution of alleles for the D1S80 locus (pMCT118) was carried out on 141 unrelated and healthy blood donors from the province of Messina (Eastern Sicily). Forty-two different genotypes and 16 different alleles were observed and two of these were found to be relatively common in the sample. Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium was tested using a preliminary simple chi-square method by binning in five groups and an exact test. The results demonstrated that the population was in HWE for both tests. A comparison of our data with other population studies showed that the distributions of alleles were similar.
Alessio
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Forensic Genetic Laboratory, Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Messina, Italy.
Claudio
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D000483:Alleles; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000379:methods; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics*; D005787:Gene Frequency / Q000235:genetics*; D005819:Genetic Markers / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012802:Sicily
D005819:Genetic Markers