title: Allele frequency of D17S855 microsatellite locus in Japanese people.
abstract: Allele frequency of D17S855 microsatellite locus, an intragenic polymorphic cytosine-adenine repeat located in the BRCA1 gene, was analyzed in 456 normal tissues of Japanese adults. The frequency of D17S855 microsatellite polymorphism was 77.9% (335/456). The size of D17S855 PCR fragments ranged from 137 to 157 bp. The most frequent allele was 151 bp (29.9%) followed by 149-bp (19.3%), 145-bp (17.5%), and 147-bp (17.0%) fragments. The observed allele distribution of this microsatellite was similar to that of Southern Swedes, while it was quite different from that of European Caucasian specimens deposited in the Genome Database.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Pathology, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Hiroshima, Japan. hyoko@mcai.med.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yokozaki
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tahara
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000483:Alleles; D044466:Asian People / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency; D019398:Genes, BRCA1 / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D008875:Middle Aged